In Flannery O’Connor’s A Good Man is Hard To Find, one is struck by the unexpected violence at the end of the story. However, if one re-reads the story a second time, they will see definite signs different angles and point of views that the author uses including foreshadows of the ending. The story begins with the typical family being challenged by the grandmother who doesn't want to take the vacation to Florida. …showed first 75 words of 1104 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1104 total…the point of view from one character to the next. She first gives her readers a taste of the ending by mentioning the Misfit’s murderous tendencies, peaking her reader’s curiosity. She then changes shifts the mood of the story and uses numerous images such as the grandmother’s dress, the graveyard, and the conversation with the Misfit to further feed our imagination. Her foreshadowing images and “narrative distance” are both strong and obscure.