First, the fact that the grandmother warns the family that there is a killer named “The Misfit” loose in Florida, the same place that they plan to go on vacation. The grandmother tries to go to Tennessee to visit family instead. Nobody really pays attention to her except for June Star and John Wesley, the children. “John said, ‘If you don’t want to go to Florida, why dontcha stay at home?’ June Star said, ‘She wouldn’t stay home for a million bucks.’ ‘She has to go everywhere we go’” (O’Connor 267). This foreshadows that the family will come across The Misfit la

Another example is what the family passed on the way. “They passed a large cotton field with five or six graves” (O’Connor 268). There is 5 people plus a baby in the family. The family includes the grandmother, Bailey, the mother, John, June, and the baby. This foreshadows that everyone in the family will die later in the story.

Another example is what the grandmother is wearing. “At her neckline she had pinned a purple spray of cloth violets containing a sachet. In case of an accident, anyone seeing her dead on the highway would know at once that she was a lady” (O’Connor 267). She dressed up for an accident and she didn’t even know that she was going to be involved in an accident.

ter on in the story. This also foreshadows that when the rest of the family is taken into the woods by The Misfit’s partners and never returned because they were dead, meant

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