From the beginning O’Connor lets us know whose story this is in the first two lines, “The grandmother didn’t want to go to Florida. She wanted to visit some of her connections in east Tennesse and she was seizing at every chance to change Bailey’s mind.” This alone sets the tone of the story. It lets the reader know not only the point of view, but foreshadows the tragedy later to come. She is giving us background information about what happens just before the story starts that only an omnis

The use of irony by O’Connor may be a little harder to find. The grandmother’s plea to become free of her murder may be ironic due to the fact that her plea was at the same time that the rest of her family is being murdered nearby. ‘The Misfit” also may be ironic as well. His use of politeness and manners only to kill the entire family shortly after is in fact ironic.

O’Connor’s use of foreshadowing is told from the very beginning and throughout the story. It may be over exaggerated to some extreme. The opening lines demonstrate an example of the foreshadowing used to foretell the destiny of this “misfit” family. It is shown again by the family’s stop at Red Sammy’s Barbeque. The grandmother’s discussion with Red Sam is nothing but a foreshadow of the accident and murde

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Hard Find”, Red Sam, omniscient view, Sammy’s Barbeque, limited omniscient, Flannery O’Connor’s, omniscient limited omniscient, “a hard find”, omniscient limited, total omniscient, o’connor using, makes reader, “a hard, hard find”,