I enjoyed reading this short story. It was written in a suspenseful way as each member of the family was taken away into the woods while the grandmother conversed with the Misfit. A shot rings out from the woods and the other two males emerge without the previously escorted family member. The story also makes you wonder if the grandmother is going to get it in the end. I was baffled by the comment made by the Misfit in reference to the grandmother at the end in which he states, “She would have been a good woman if it had been someone to shoot her every minute of her life. I felt this meant that she was annoying with her comments or a nagging old lady that should have been dealt with years ago.
I felt he meant that she was only saying the good things she did to keep from getting killed and that he thought she was superficial. I think the author demonstrated how the world is changing by showing how disrespectful the children were to their grandmother and father. She conveyed that the grandmother was sort of a nuisance to her son and family. This seemed to say that family values are not what they used to be. The author also showed that people are not always what they seem. The grandmother seemed to be trying to spare her life by saying nice and comforting remarks to the Misfit.
We don’t know if she meant them or not. The Misfit appeared to the grandmother as coming from good blood. He even stated he did, but he revealed that people change or don’t hold the values that others wish they had. After the grandmother was killed, he removed his glasses and had a more ominous, pale look about him than what the grandmother saw. The Misfit did show to have some sense of feeling by saying it was no real pleasure in life. He still did what he felt he had to do.
The Essay on Family and Life Story Work
?In this assignment I aim to discuss life story work: which can provide the care worker, and care receiver a better understanding of each other’s needs, and provide the care worker with information that can help support the care receiver in the best way. The carer needs to possess certain skills sensitivity, confidentiality, empathy, trustworthiness, and have commitment to seeing the story to the ...
In this paper, I have summarized the plot of Flannery O’Connor’s short story, ” A Good Man is Hard to Find.” I also sited my feelings toward the story and what I felt the author was trying to convey to the reader. I enjoyed the flow of this story and the content; even-though it ended in a bizarre way.
