A Good Man Is Hard to Find: Irony Is Shown Throughout the Story

“A Good Man Is Hard To Find” Lorean Gibson South University Online “A Good Man Is Hard To Find” “A Good Man Is Hard To Find”, in my opinion, is based on the main character, a bossy and racist grandmother, her rude grand kids, her impatient son , his wife and baby, all of whom ends up getting killed while on vacation by a serial killer that escaped from jail. This story is drenched in the southern gothic tradition, ironic situations, and has racial comments made by the grandmother. “A Good Man Is Hard To Find” has all the characteristic of a gothic piece: there is a victim who is helpless against his torturer; which is shown in the story by the family not being able to get away from the Misfit and his crew and two by two losing their life. There is also a victimizer (Misfit) who is associated with evil and whose powers are immense , which is shown by his escaping the Federal Pen and killing all six members of the family without anyone being the wiser. The impenetrable walls (physical orpsychological) used to heighten the victim 's sense of hopeless isolation is shown by their being killed in the middle of nowhere on a deserted dirt road with a overturned vehicle, and finally, the victim (grandmother) is in some way entranced or fascinated by the inscrutable power of her victimizer which is shown by the grandmother stating, "Why you 're one of my babies. You 're one of my own children “ and reaching out and touching him on the shoulder. (Gothic Tradition, 2007-2009) Irony is shown throughout the story, such as the fact that the grandmother uses the misfit’s escape as a reason for them not to go to Florida and stated , “I wouldn 't take my children in any direction with a criminal like that a loose in it” and in the end she’s the one that waved the car down that the misfit and his crew was driving , therefore causing her son, grandkids , her daughter-in-law and herself to be killed by them. The grandmother wears a “navy blue straw sailor hat with

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