The Grandmother Who Went Through Lengths to Manipulate Her Family
The Grandmother Who Went Through Lengths to Manipulate Her Family Flannery O’Conner short story “A Good Man is hard to Find” Is about this grandmother who is plotting to get her own way through whatever means is necessary. So the fact is “The grandmother’s whole personality is built upon the fictions she tells herself and her family” (Schenck, 340). “She creates the stories behind the visual phenomena she sees and explains the relationships between events or her own actions which have no logic other than that which she lends them” (Schenck, 340). The grandmother who imaged a life she once had that turn to a tragedy of reality for her and her family. She does not admit it, but her thoughts manifest themselves physically and emotionally. The grandmother got so embarrassed that her cheek was red and her eyes widen and she begins to stomp her feet and this really upset her at that moment.
The grandmother was doing her best to manipulate Bailey just so she could have her way and does what she wants, she was willing to lie and even make up things that were not true. She goes as far as disrupting Bailey while he is trying to read the newspaper journal. She tells him “here this fellow that calls himself the Misfit is aloose from the Federal Pen and headed toward Florida and you read here what it says he did to these people” (O’Conner, 308). She even told them to take her to Tennessee “You all ought to take them somewhere else for a change so they would see different parts of the world and be broad” (O’Conner, 309). This grandmother has been willing to just have her way at all cost, she even when as far as telling her grandkids about a plantation she worked on as a maiden lady and a man named Edgar Atkins Teagarden who would bring her watermelons everyday with his initials carved in it. This grandmother just does not know when to stop lying and manipulating her family with these imagery stories of a life that she never lived.
As the grandmother and her family
The grandmother was doing her best to manipulate Bailey just so she could have her way and does what she wants, she was willing to lie and even make up things that were not true. She goes as far as disrupting Bailey while he is trying to read the newspaper journal. She tells him “here this fellow that calls himself the Misfit is aloose from the Federal Pen and headed toward Florida and you read here what it says he did to these people” (O’Conner, 308). She even told them to take her to Tennessee “You all ought to take them somewhere else for a change so they would see different parts of the world and be broad” (O’Conner, 309). This grandmother has been willing to just have her way at all cost, she even when as far as telling her grandkids about a plantation she worked on as a maiden lady and a man named Edgar Atkins Teagarden who would bring her watermelons everyday with his initials carved in it. This grandmother just does not know when to stop lying and manipulating her family with these imagery stories of a life that she never lived.
As the grandmother and her family
Cited: O’Conner, Flannery. “A Good Man Is Hard to Find.” Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama and Writing. Ed. X.J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia. 7th Ed. New York: Longman. 2013. 308-18. Print. Schenck, Mary. “Deconstruction “A Good Man Is Hard to Find.” Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and Writing. Ed. X.J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia. 7th Ed. New York: Longman. 2013. 340-41. Print.