The selfishness of a persons actions .
The grandmother in "A good man is hard to find," by Flannery O'Connor. dosenn't value.
what she has in her life, but instead wants what has been left behind. She is a prim and proper lady dressed in a suit, hat, and white cotton gloves. This woman will do whatever it takes to get what she wants and she doesn't let anyone else's feelings stand in her way.
The grandmother is a manipulative, deceitful, and self-serving.
woman who lives in the past. She trys to justify her demands by convincing.
herself and her family that her way is not only the best way, but the only way.
The grandmother is determined to change her family's vacation destination as she tries.
to manipulate her son into going to Tennessee instead of Florida. She began trying to.
make Bailey, her son, feel guilty about the children's safety for there was a murder on the.
loose. The grandmother says that "she couldn't answer to her conscience if she took the.
children in a direction where there was a convict on the loose." She is not success-ful with.
Bailey, so she uses the same antics on her daughter-in-law who doesn't even acknowledge.
her. Before she has a chance to work on the children, they tell her "stay at home if you.
don't want to go." The randmother then decides that she will have to go along after all, but.
she is already working on her own agenda.
The grandmother is very deceitful, and she manages to sneak the cat in the car with her.
even though she knows Bailey does not "like to arrive at a motel with a cat." She decides.
that she would like to visit an old plantation and begins her pursuit of convincing Bailey to .
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agree to it. She describes the old house for the children adding mysterious details to pique.
their curiosity. "There was a secret panel in this house," she states craftily knowing it is a.
lie, and not really wanting to, but she is determined to see the house. The grandmother.
