Post WWII: "A Good Man is Hard to Find" Flannery O'Connor

• Grandmother tries to convince her son to take the family to east Tennessee for vacation instead of Florida
• There is an escaped convict heading toward Florida
• Cat, Pitty Sing, gets hidden in a basket in the car
• dress attire
• dress and hat with flowers
• Wants people to know she is a lady
• In a cotton field, grandma tells the young boy that there are graves in the middle that belonged to the plantation
• Jokes that the plantation has "Gone with the Wind."
• Suitor brought her watermelon every week
• carved his initials in which were EAT (Edgar Atkins Teagarden)
• Little black child ate because he thought it said to "eat"
• Restaurant owner, Red Sammy Butts complains people are untrustworthy 
• His wife doesn't trust anyone, including him.
• Red Sam says "A good man is hard to find."
• The family drives deep into the woods seeking a house
• Grandma then remembers it's in Tennessee not Georgia
• Bailey wrecks the car when Pitty Sing escapes the basket and startles him.
• The mother breaks her shoulder
• Grandma doesn't tell about her mistake
• Wants to visit a plantation she once visited nearby
• Says the house has 6 white columns and was at the end of an oak tree driveway
• Lied to make the house seem interesting
• Head down a gravel road
• A passing car stops, three men get out carrying guns
• Grandma thinks she recognizes one of them
• One wearing glasses and no shirt
• tells the children's mother to make the children set down because they make him nervous
• Misfit
• The man doesn't like that she recognizes him.
• Takes the father and the boy into the woods
• The mom and the two girls go into the woods
• gun shots come from the woods
• Grandma says you wouldn't kill a lady
• Misfit shoots grandma in the chest 3 times when she calls him "one of my own children"
• The misfit observes that grandmother could have been a good woman if someone had been around "to shoot her every minute of her life.
• The misfit says life has no true pleasure
• Themes
• definition of "Good Man"
• Unlikely recipients of good grace
• Nostalgia
• The grandmother's hat.