Blog #4: "A Good Man is Hard to Find"

      The Grandmother would best the best of the family that shows "Southern Grotesque." It could be shown when they first started their trip and the grandmother out the little black boy on the side of the road. She called him a "little pickaninny" and when June star pointed out the he didn't have "britches on" the grandmother stated the he probably didn't have any anyway. It shows her racial bigotry, and the poverty that others had in that time. Then the grandmother would point out how “Red Sam’s wife” should be ashamed when June Star talked about their shortcomings. Red Sam’s wife thought it was so cute when June Star danced and made a comment on asking if she would be her little girl. June stated “I wouldn’t live in a broken-down place like this for a million bucks!” It was just the way that the grandmother talked down to her that was just plain rude. Then there is “The Misfit” who seems to have no sense of right and wrong. The Misfit may not have always had the capacity for evil that he shows at the end of the story, but the time that he had spent in prison whether he did actually commit a crime or not morally corrupted him. He commented on what his fatter said about him that he was only just a “different breed of dog from his brothers and sisters.” That shows that he must have been different but it doesn’t mean that he was as corrupted then as he shows now in the story. He seemed to not mind when his… “Hench-men” killed the son and father or later when they killed the mother, daughter, and baby. The only time the Misfit might have ever shown the slightest bit of remorse was when he shot the grandmother when she tried to plea for her life. He and the grandmother are the ones in the story that I believe most show “Southern Grotesque.”