A Good Man Is Hard To Find

• Written by Flannery O'Connor.

• The story beings with a Grandmother complaining to her son Bailey, that she would rather go to Tennessee for vacation than Florida. The family still decides to go to Florida, and on their way they stop to eat at a diner called "The Tower." The grandmother strikes up conversation with the owner about an escaped murderer called "The Misfit." When they get back on the road the grandmother is telling old stories about a nearby home to try and detour the family away from the Florida trip. The grandchildren annoy their father until he finally agrees to go to the house that their grandmother is taking about. when the grandmother realizes the house is in Tennessee and not Georgia she starts to yell and scares her cat that causes them to wreck. As the family waits for help they see a car approach them and three men get out, one with a gun. The men start conversation with the Bailey until finally the grandmother realizes that the man is "The Misfit." The Misfit makes his men take the family into the woods an kill them one by one. The grandmother then begins to beg for her life. When that doesn't work she begins preaching to him about God. After the Misfit kills the grandmother the last thig he says is "she would have been a good woman, if  there had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life."