A Series of Unfortunate Events

Society has days where everything that could go wrong does go wrong. The same could be said about life in itself. Challenges will be presented and dealt with but how they are dealt with is what matters. How the situation is brought to an end will decide it. For every action there is a reaction, for every amount of time spent there is something that is done. In Flanner O’Connor’s “A Good Man is Hard to Find” the story revolves around the grandmother of the family; she makes several mistakes through the text, but make one climatic blunder that leads to the decimation of her entire family, and then at the very end salvation is sought after but not given, for one that has not spoken with God before shall not be heard when needed, for the power of Christ is reached through habitual worship not one last “hurrah.”

The grandmother makes several mistakes throughout the story some that seem minute but all together add up towards the end. Her first mistake is when she brings the cat in the car. The grandmother reveals, “She had her big black valise that looked like the head of a hippopotamus in one corner, and underneath it she was hiding a basket with Pitty Sing, the cat, in it.” (AGMIHF Pg 1) If she wasn’t supposed to bring the cat then she would of brought it out in the open and therefore would not have to find it. We see the reason for her hding the cat when she the narrator then explains, “ Her son, Bailey, didn’t like to arrive at motel wit ha cat.” (AGMIHF Pg 1) For some reason the son doesn’t like the cat to begin with. He has good reason to.

The next unfortunate event seems to also be miniature but is still rather important the grandmother incested on seeing a town and had recalled, “an old plantation that she had visted in this n...

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...javuu. After a conversation with the driver and the children about why they guns, the driver tells the mother to tell the mother, “Lady, would you mind telling calling them children to sit down by you? Children make me nervous.” At this point Bailey is on the verge of throwing a fit about that BUT the grandmother shrieks, “You’re The Misfit! I recognized you at once!” This was her final mistake and even The Misfit thinks the same when he remarks back, “Yes’m, the man said, smiling slightly as if he were pleased in sptie of himself to be known, but if would have been better for all of you, lady, if you hadn’t of reckernized me.” This is the final straw that the grandma has picked. At this point, God himself has had enough of her screwing up so many times and now her family being involved that he punishes her by sending The Misfit to look like a blessing in disguise.