O'Connor's A Good Man Is Hard To Find

As I read more stories in the packet, I feel as if each is creepier than the last. A grandmother, her son, her daughter in law, her granddaughter, and grandson hear about an escaped murderer called the Misfit, who is on his way to Florida where they live. They decide to leave town to escape the Misfit and stop at a restaurant run by Red Sam. At first I thought he was the Misfit because he seemed sensitive about the topic. After the family leaves the restaurant, the grandmother mentions a house that grabs the children's attention. The kids throw a fit so they have to go to the house. On a dirt path to the house, the grandmother realizes she meant it was somewhere else. They get in a car accident and everyone is fine. Almost immediately a car pulls up and three men get out of it. The grandmother recognizes the man as being the Misfit and makes the mistake of saying so. The two men take her son and grandson off to the woods where they shoot them. Next they take her daughter in law and granddaughter and shoot them too. While that is happening, the grandmother is having a conversation with the Misfit and doesn't realize what happened to her family until it is too late. The grandmother and the Misfit talk about his depressing childhood.  He killed his father and was locked up, but the grandmother keeps saying that he is a good man. If a murderer is a good man, then a good man really is not hard to find and the title of this story is ironic. I think the murderer is mentally ill and I feel bad for him because he can't help it, however that is no justification because killing people is wrong.