... she was a lady." This directly foreshadows the family's demise because the grandmother was dressed-up to meet the family's coming fate, death. Before they leave, however, the grandmother stows her cat, Pitty Sing, in a basket in the car because she "was afraid he might brush against one of the gas burners and accidentally asphyxiate himself." This is the third time the ... 't traveled very often. When the grandmother figures out that the house is not where she thought it was, she begins to get embarrassed and shuffles her feet. This causes the cat to spring out of the basket onto Bailey'...

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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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... 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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