The Twisted Tale of the South in A Good Man Is Hard to Find

This twisted story of sudden brutality in the provincial South opens unobtrusively, with a family arranging an excursion. The spouse, Bailey, his significant other, and their youngsters, John Wesley and June Star, all need to go to Florida. The grandma, Bailey's mom, nonetheless, needs to go to east Tennessee, where she has relatives, and she strongly endeavors to convince them to go there. Unfit to persuade them that the outing to Tennessee will be novel and widening for the youngsters, the grandma offers as a last contention a daily paper article that expresses that a psychopathic executioner who calls himself The Misfit is making a beeline for Florida.

Overlooking the grandma's desires and notices, the family sets out the following morning for Florida. The grandma settles herself in the auto in front of the others so her child won't realize that she has brought along her feline, Pitty Sing, covered up in a crate under her seat. As the excursion continues, she gabs away, calling attention to intriguing subtle elements of view, advising her child not to drive too quick, recounting stories to the youngsters. All through the drive, the kids quarrel, the infant cries, the father becomes touchy. To put it plainly, the excursion is both dreadful and customary, loaded with the random data, fatigue, and insignificant rancors of every day life, from which the family can't get away, even in the midst of a furlough. At noon, they stop at Red Sammy's, a grill diner, where the grandma mourns that 'individuals are absolutely not pleasant like they used to be,' and Red Sammy concurs: 'A great man is elusive.' In this discussion, the grandma, extremist and stubborn, over and again guarantees herself that she is a woman, a great Christian, and a decent judge of character: She keeps up that Red Sammy, a bossy windbag, is a 'decent man' and that Europe 'was altogether to fault for the way things were presently.' After they leave the roadhouse, the grandma controls her child into making a bypass to see an old estate she once went to as a young lady. Abruptly, she recalls that the ranch isn't in Georgia yet in Tennessee. She is so resentful about this acknowledgment that she bounces up and agitates her valise, whereupon the feline hops out onto her child's shoulder, her child loses control of the auto, the auto topples, and they all land in a discard. As they develop, an old, 'funeral wagon like' vehicle comes over the slope and stops for them. Three men advance out, one of whom the grandma immediately distinguishes as The Misfit. The grandma, understanding that he plans to slaughter them, tries to talk him out of it by speaking to his gallantry, encouraging him not to shoot a woman. At that point she tries honeyed words, affirming that she can tell that he is a 'decent man.' She tries to entice him by recommending that he quit being a criminal and settle down to an agreeable life. She asks him to go to Jesus for help and pardoning.

At last, she tries to influence him with cash. Every one of these strategies come up short. As she chats with him, he has his colleagues take alternate individuals from the family to the forested areas and shoot them. Despite the fact that The Misfit rejects all the grandma's contentions, he tunes in to them nearly; he gives careful consideration when the grandma alludes to Jesus. Surely, The Misfit pronounces, 'Jesus was the special case that at any point raised the dead.... He startled everything. In the event that He did what He stated, at that point it's nothing for you to do except for discard everything and tail him.' In his serious pride, be that as it may, The Misfit keeps up that he can't accept without having been a witness; hence, 'it's nothing for you to do except for appreciate the couple of minutes you got left the most ideal way you can—by killing someone or copying down his home or doing some different ugliness to him. No delight however ugliness.' At the point when the grandma is finally alone with The Misfit, she relinquishes every last bit of her strategies. Her set out clears toward a moment, in which she sees the killer as thin, slight, and wretched. Pronouncing 'Why you're one of my infants. You're one of my own youngsters!' she connects and touches him. He draws back in aversion and shoots her. Having been observer to the grandma's snapshot of beauty, The Misfit concedes that 'unpleasantness' has lost its kick: 'It's no genuine joy throughout everyday life.'