"A Good Man is Hard to Find"

I think that it is odd that F O'C left the main character, the grandmother, unnamed in this story. She also doesn't name the wife or the baby, but she gives names to the people running "The Tower" and the other two men who murder the family. The two older children in the story are badly behaved. The grandmother chatters throughout the entire story. She talks about being "a lady" and about being a Christian and tells the children how they should behave, but she doesn't act like a Christian herself. She tries to manipulate the family into going to Tennessee instead of Florida, she gossips with the people at The Tower, she lies to the children about the secret door in the old house, she blatantly disregards her son's wishes about the cat staying at home, and she fakes an injury when she has none in order to gain sympathy from her son. In the end, she tries to bring the "Misfit" to Jesus so he won't kill her, but she seems like she has little concern for the family members who are already dead. She calls out for her son twice in the story, but her cries seemed like a plea for her own life instead of his. Her behavior throughout the story seemed like a foreshadowing of the ending. She talked about the Misfit a couple of times in the story so it is evident he will show up somewhere. The ending is disturbing, but not all unexpected. The way that F O'C described the south and southern behavior was excellent.