iggers, or freaks--she canbe both a wart hog before the judgment seat of God and saved, too. If "Revelation" can helpstudents understand the nature of Original Sin and the inscrutable nature of God's wisdom,the "A Good Man is Hard to Find" can certainly help them see both the frailty of human willand the kindred nature of human existence. Like Ruby Turpin, the grandmother of "A GoodMan Is Hard to Find" considers herself a lady. Dressing for her road trip to Florida with herson Bailey, his wife, and their three children, she carries her white cotton gloves and pins"a purple spray of cloth violets containing a sachet to her neckline"; as her interiormonologue tells us, "In case of an accident anyone seeing her dead on the highway wouldknow at once that she was a lady." And the thought is grimly prophetic. Badgered intotraveling down a rutted dirt road that the grandmother mistakenly thinks will lead to anold plantation, they do have an accident....
