Nobody Listened to Grandmother

Sometimes we tend to ingnore other people, when they are trying to give us advice. this was the case with Bailey the son in Flannery O'Conner's short story, "A Good Man is Hard to Find." The Grandmother tried to convince Bailey to go to Tennessee, rather than Florida on their family vacation. Whether she had a premonition or she was just being controlling, is to be determined. However, if Bailey had listened to her, the family's life might have been spared.
The grandmother could be very self-centered, controlling, talkative and burdensome. these may be reasons her son, Bailey chose not to take her advice.



	Reflection of Society .... Like Dr. Stockmann he even made a television program about it, however nobody listened to him because he was just a security personnel. .... (1546 6 )

	Night By Elie Weisel .... Settings in these camps were harsh for the Jews. Jews tried warning each other village to village of what was happening but nobody listened. .... (253 1 )

	Xhosa People .... cattle in order to survive seemed insane. "They only treated it as a joke ...nobody listened. They said we were telling fairy-tales .... (821 3 )

	Lord of the Flies .... (Golding, p./95). Simon also said that, " What I mean is . . . maybe it 's only us. " (Golding, p./96). Nobody listened to Simon and the boys laugh at him. .... (324 1 )

	Martin luther king jr. and gandhi .... Nothing was resulting from all his hard work, nobody listened to him and sometimes it was difficult for Gandhi to listen to himself. .... (755 3 )

The grandmother's self-centerdness once again shines throught when she insists they go off track to see an old house she wanted to see. "She knew Bailey would not be willing to lose any time looking at an old house" (500), so she showed her craftieness by enticing the grandchildren into wanting to see it. She mentioned a secret panel in the old house, knowing this would capture the attention of the children and they would also want to go see the house. She knew the children would aggrivate their father until he gave in and went where they wanted to go. after all, she had lived with them and knew how they would react.

Some topics in this essay:
Family, Bailey, A Good Man Is Hard To Find, Son, Short Story, East Tennessee, Florida,

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PROFESSIONAL ESSAYS:

Poems by Ogden Nash .... a season when "everybody loved everybody" and "nobody shoved nobody," ultimately getting .... the "neighborhood bore" who does not deserve to be listened to (Nash 94 .... (2612 10 )

Steel Magnolias .... M'lynn asks if Shelby's husband, Jackson, has ever listened carefully to what .... promises that, with this pregnancy, she will be very careful: "Nobody's going to .... (1898 8 )

Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in America .... were white and one is Latino) exploded with such violence, but nobody has yet .... more the follower, that they wore odd and menacing clothing and listened to rock .... (1667 7 )

Musical Formalization of the Blues .... at the crossroads, I tried to flag a ride (twice) / Ain't nobody seem to .... said I'd lose her if I ever did abuse her; Should have listened (Washington, Simpkins .... (4751 19 )

Women in Hamlet and King Lear .... Only in the duel scene, when she--who has listened to Claudius's lying voice for .... Nobody reassures her or explains anything to her; she is merely an instrument. .... (2289 9 )

Political Ideologies of Ralph Ellison & Malcolm X .... He often listened to the answers of others, despite their contradictory nature. .... Ellison's (15) narrator to tell us up front in the work, "I am nobody but myself .... (1744 7 )

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