The Grandmother does not want to believe in the Misfit’s murderous nature she still sees a good man in him. I’m doing all right by myself.” (O’Connor 151) Both characters’ specific traits of personality are discovered during that dialogue. The Misfit’s response was filled with self-confidence: “I don’t want no help.
“Well then, why don’t you pray?” she said while trembling (O’Connor 150). Probably the most important part of the story is the dialogue between the Misfit and the Grandmother. These particular lines indicate the strained relationship between the children and the Grandmother. “But nobody’s killed,” June Star disappointedly said, looking at the Grandmother getting out of the car (O’Connor 145). “We’ve had an ACCIDENT!” the children shouted (O’Connor 145). The Grandmother’s reminiscences of the past and the desire for reunification with them led to a car crash.
When Red Sammy asked her about why he had let the two fellers charge the gas they bought the previous week, she responded: “Because you’re a good man!” (O’Connor 142). However, she still seemed to believe in the existence of good people. The Grandmother still lived mentally in the old times, where, according to her, people were better – they were nicer and more respectful. Just from these lines, we can get the idea of a certain confrontation between the old and new views on things. Tennessee has the mountains, and Georgia has the hills.” (O’Connor 139). The grandmother answered: “If I were a little boy, I wouldn’t talk about my native state that way. “Let’s go through Georgia fast so we won’t have to look at it much,” said John Wesley during the trip (O’Connor 139). Old-fashioned and dreamy, the old lady has further proved to match that depiction during the conversation with the kids in the car.
June’s depiction of the Grandmother was rather crude, but, at the same time, it was accurate. She has to go everywhere we go.” (O’Connor 137). When John Wesley asked the Grandmother why she would not stay home if she did not really want to go to Florida, little June Star said: “She wouldn’t stay at home for a million bucks. The nature of the Grandmother’s personality is already suggested in the very first pages of the story. Therefore, the importance of dialogues to the story will be explained by analyzing certain significant quotes and indicating their contribution to the delivering of the story’s main ideas.
The dialogue aspect of A Good Man is Hard to Find is the story’s key component for delivering the characters’ thoughts, their personalities, their points of view on the events described in the story, and, ultimately, for creating impressions of readers about each character.
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