Question:
Do you think that the Grandmother changes throughout the story? If not, why not? If so, why? Use evidence from the text to back up your opinion
[A Good Man Is Hard To Find Is a book by Flannery O'Connor and in this Blog post I will be discussing parts of it]
I believe that in this book the Grandmother does not change throughout the story. I believe this because of a few reasons, the main one being that because the Grandmother is not presented with the same opportunity more than once so she doesn't have the ability to show that she has changed. Another reason is that the Grandmother, throughout the book kept on insisting that everyone was a good man (I believe that when she was saying that she was just hoping that everyone was good even when most of the time, they weren't) The first example of this is when Red Sam was asking why he let the people passing through charge their own gas and the Grandmother was insisting that he did it because he is a good man. The next time she says this it is in the vain hope that if she convinces a murderer that he is a good man then maybe he won't kill her. She repeats this many times to The Misfit without change. While this is an interesting story the characters, especially the Grandmother, are quite linear and don't change much, if any.
