"A Good Man is Hard To Find a Southern Grotesque"

          There are parts in this story that really seemed to be realistic and really out of the ordinary. O' Connors characters and plot in " A Good Man is Hard to Find," can be considered a grotesque for the fact that this story is fiction and that its realistic, it explains what they are wearing, what they are eating, and also their actions. In this story the writer brings the characters alive and goes beyond their problems and situations. Some examples are yelling, having disagreements ignoring each other and not getting along. Each character had different coherences and personalities. The writer also writes about a freak and the freak is the Misfit. This story had a mystery meaning to it because it brought us readers not knowing and assuming what is going to happen to what just happened. Then having know idea what might happen next. The story completely changes from the beginning to the middle and to the end. 

          The story starts out by the grandma reading the news paper and finding out about this guy who calls himself a Misfit and he broke out of the Federal jail and is on the loose headed to Florida. While the grandma is trying to talk to her son Bailey, at the same time he just ignores her about the situation that is happening. Instead of going to Florida they decided to go to east Tennessee because the children never been their and it is not towards the Misfit where there is danger. Before they leave the grandma writes down the time and the car milage because she wants to know what the milage is when they get back home from the trip. At this point you know that they are going on a family trip and that its going to be a normal family vacation and that they are going to come back home. After riding in the car and stopping on the way and fighting, the grandma talks about her memories and she told stories. After she talked about this house and lying about it, the children really wanted to see it. They decided to go and turn back around and go on this dirt road which leads to this house that the grandma remembers seeing. The grandma ends up remembering that the house was not in Georgia and that it was in Tennesse. The family gets into a car wreck and gets stranded on the side of the ditch. After being stranded they waited for a car to come. The story starts to change again. From this point a car came and there were three men. One guy looked very familiar to the grandma and she ended up knowing who it was. It was the Misfit. The story changes again and they all end up being dead because the 3 men end up shooting all of them. This is a souther grotesque because it is realistic, mysterious, and has a freak in the story. So it starts out by them going on a trip to getting in a wreck and meeting three men and then end up being dead. This story was a grotesque because of how it was set up and how it was different throughout the story. You expected something else to happen but then it would change and be completely different.