ry ending in catastrophe. OConnor uses plenty of irony or subtle kind of sarcasm in developing each of the stories. Coincidentally, A Good Man Is Hard To Find and Good Country People are both set in the South during the earlier years, when segregation was an issue and trust was not. A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Good Country People are two ironically twisted tales of how two different families lives are altered after trusting and being mislead by a stranger.In A Good Man Is Hard to Find, OConnor introduces a family whose lives ironically turn up side down while on a trip to Florida. For instance, before leaving on the trip, the grandmother (who wants to go to Tennessee in stead of Florida) tells her son, Bailey, about the newspaper article. Thus, the article states that a prisoner escapes to Florida and calls himself the misfit. However, her son basically ignores her and they end up taking the trip to Florida regardless of the warning. Also, the grandmother takes her cat, Pitty Sing, along on the trip in order to prevent any mishaps by leaving her behind. In addition, the grandmother wears a pin so that if she dies in an accident anyone who finds her, knows that she is a woman. Moreover, she points out several different sights on her way to Florida. Most significantly, she says, Look at that graveyard (OConnor 139)! With a twist the family decides to take a detour on a dirt road in Georgia with the intentions of visiting an old plantation. Unfortunately, this frightens Pitty Sing and she springs onto Baileys shoulder while he is driving. As a result, this causes an accident. The horrible thought that she [ the grandmother] was having before the accident was that the house she had remembered so vividly was not in Georgia but in Tennessee ( 145). Minutes later, the grandmother flagged down a big black hearse-like car with three men inside. Youre The Misfit I recognized you at once, says the grandmother to the older man ...
