... is indeed "dressed to kill. But although she agrees to follow through with the excursion, she refuses to go with out her cat Pitty Sing. Afraid that the cat will accidentally asphyxiate himself on the gas stove if left behind, she secretly stows Pitty Sing in her basket. This scenario, foreshadowing death ... as indications of the Misfit's location. After eating at Red Sammy's, they continue their journey to Florida. The grandmother drifts in and out of "cat-naps," but awakens quickly when the family reaches the town of Toombsboro. When analyzed, the word "tomb" pulled out of the town's...

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... "dressed to kill"" (Orvell 131). But although she agrees to follow through with the excursion, she refuses to go with out her cat Pitty Sing. Afraid that the cat will accidentally asphyxiate himself on the gas stove if left behind, she secretly stows Pitty Sing in her basket. This scenario, foreshadowing death ... of the Misfit's location (Driskell 68). After eating at Red Sammy's, they continue their journey to Florida. The grandmother drifts in and out of "cat-naps," but awakens quickly when the family reaches the town of Toombsboro. When analyzed, the word "tomb" pulled out of the town...

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... of her status in the family and used it to get her way. Pitty Sing, the cat, is along for the car trip. Despite her son's choice to have the cat stay at home, she brings it along. She claims that she is afraid that the cat will suffocate itself when it accidentally rubs against the stove burners. Again, she has no real ... concern for the cat's safety; she uses this excuse to get what she wants. Self-serving behavior is one character trait that the grandmother holds. She is always on the lookout for her own ... of the road, but really she wants him to obey her. When the family is in t...

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... "dressed to kill"" (Orvell 131). But although she agrees to follow through with the excursion, she refuses to go with out her cat Pitty Sing. Afraid that the cat will accidentally asphyxiate himself on the gas stove if left behind, she secretly stows Pitty Sing in her basket. This scenario, foreshadowing death ... of the Misfit's location (Driskell 68). After eating at Red Sammy's, they continue their journey to Florida. The grandmother drifts in and out of "cat-naps," but awakens quickly when the family reaches the town of Toombsboro. When analyzed, the word "tomb" pulled out of the town...

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... begin slapping each other and the grandmother. Without say from the children's parents, the grandmother takes it upon herself to keep the peace between them, by telling them a story of a black child mistakenly eating her watermelon with initials from a suitor carved in it reading E.A.T. At one point John Wesley says: "Let's go through Georgia fast so we don't have to look ... the children's acting out and he concedes to visit the house that the grandmother spoke about. It was on this bumpy and windy road where ironically the newspaper concealing the cat moves causing Pitty Sing to lurch...

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... her. She is full of self importance and pride in her stories, with tones of racism showing up. "Oh look at that cute little pickaninny!", she says as they pass a a black child standing in a the door of a shack (467). When it comes to the racism in the story, grandmother is a victim of her circumstance, rather than a racist due to hatred. Her ... road to a plantation she knew as a young woman. When she realizes that that the house she remembers wasn't in Georgia, but Tennessee, she is so embarrassed she upsets her hiding cat, Pitty Sing, who in turn lands on Bailey's shoulder, creating a...

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... begin slapping each other and the grandmother. Without say from the children's parents, the grandmother takes it upon herself to keep the peace between them, by telling them a story of a black child mistakenly eating her watermelon with initials from a suitor carved in it reading E.A.T. At one point John Wesley says: "Let's go through Georgia fast so we don't have to look ... the children's acting out and he concedes to visit the house that the grandmother spoke about. It was on this bumpy and windy road where ironically the newspaper concealing the cat moves causing Pitty Sing to lurch...

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... predicts the doom the family will meet in the end. Another example is the car the family sees slowly approaching them after they have their car accident. It is a "big black battered hearse-like automobile" (273). This is one of the last major hints given before anyone is killed. A hearse is exactly what the family will need soon, for the "hearse ... to them. In addition to these, there are still more clues that the family will be murdered. O'Connor also uses figurative language to provide a few more subtle clues. After grandmother's cat gets startled and jumps onto Bailey, who is drivin...

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