Never Take Life For Granted

The Grandma is prim and proper and self-acclaimed to be very ‘lady like’ yet is extremely crass in her mannerisms. From the very beginning of the story the grandmother begins to show her selfish ways. “…and headed toward Florida and you read here what it says he did to these people. Just you read it. I wouldn't take my children in any direction with a criminal like that aloose in it. I couldn't answer to my conscience if I did." (O’Connor 1). Though the grandmother is not specific in her selfishness, it seems her indirectness is what gets her nowhere in her statements. As a result of this, neither her children nor her grandchildren do not show reverence for her. Without the parents respect for the Grandmother, there is no possibility for her to gain the grandchildren’s respect. Here again we have another character whose role was not the main role, but one who has a lesson to teach if the reader is willing to dig deep enough to find

I remember the days when my grandma would be the one taking care of me after school. Each and every school day, I would eagerly wait for school to end so that my grandma could come and pick me up to bring me back to her apartment. Each and every day, she would come 15 minutes after school had ended to avoid the hassle of dealing with all the parents coming at the same time to pick their kids up. I didn’t mind though, that gave me time to talk to my teachers about issues that I had or just to socialize with my friends. Once my grandma arrived, I would quickly drop what I was doing, say goodbye to whomever I was talking to, and go straight to the car to keep my grandma from waiting. My grandma would immediately greet me and ask how my day

My grandma Linda was her only daughter. I spent weeks at Ma’s house in Holstein, Iowa. Christmas for the Grell’s was always hosted at Ma’s house. When I was young she would take me swimming at the communities pool, and ice cream afterwards. Ma’ was an expert cook, her favorite summer dish was fried chicken. She was nearly famous for that fried chicken. In September of 2012 Doctors discovered a tumor in Ma’s liver. Ma’s children paid for an assisted living home in Sioux City, Iowa. She pasted away March 21, 2013. Leading up to March the relationship between my mother and her parents decrepitated. My grandparents refused to come to my high school graduation.

The story about the grandmother’s family and their deaths also generated some sympathy from me, but my feeling of sadness went away quickly. Although this family’s characters

In this story, the grandmother seems to consider herself as the leader of the family. She seems to think of herself as having higher standards than other people, and therefore, she is quick to pass judgment on others. For example, she tells the children’s mother and father, “You all ought to take them somewhere else for a change so they would see different parts of the world and be bored. They never have been to Tennessee” (O’Connor 436).” The grandmother is a very opinionated, talkative, narcissistic, and manipulative woman who frequently controls the other family members. She is the one who calls attention to the fact that a dangerous criminal is on the loose and is located on the route to Florida. Apparently the grandmother thinks this information can compel the father and mother to change their traveling plans. The grandmother seems to cares only about her own wants and desires and has little interest in the wants and desires of

Why would a grandmother care for her own life more than her own children and grandkids? In “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor, the no named grandmother is the main character and the anti-hero of the short story that lives in the past by telling stories of her time and childhood. As described by the narrator, she is an old woman from the south who dresses very eloquently in order to keep her image of being an etiquette lady. The grandmother discerns herself as a fine woman who is superior to others, her family in particular. The grandmother unfortunately plays the important role of the plot because she puts her family at risk, which later kills them all by the misfit and his gang. The grandmother’s unawareness of being manipulative

The grandmother is the one in which the action happens against. She also is the character in which we see the most change. She goes through most of the story saying that a good man is hard to find, until she is faced with life and death. Once she understands that her life hangs in the balance her attitude changes. She shows who she really is facing death and realizes what it truly means to have her faith and believe in it.

This was my third session with LD since grandma’s death. She appears to be more comfortable in talking about grandma’s death. In previous sessions, she was “bothered by grandma’s old school ways”, now I believe she is struggling with her love for grandma, opposed to her disgust with the “old Haitian ways” I knew she loved her grandmother, and we were in the process of learning to identify grandma’s old school ways and applying it to LD’s generation, to see the similarities and differences. I sympathized with LD, to lose a grandma at any age is tough. Everyone handles death and dying differently, the key for me is to listen to LD, allow her to express her feelings and to seek support when she needs it from the staff at school, and with members of her family who will comfort her when she needs to be

The grandmother can be visually perceived as an archetypical woman who believes she is better than she authentically is. Her values throughout the story portray her as a “Souther Belle”. While struggles between her southern values and money-oriented culture, her comportment is justified due to her Southern upbringing (Owens).By incorporating class and social values to the story, O’Connor tackles the manifestation of her social order, and present her character to portray her as exactly as she is (Owens). Focusing on the grandmother character, Mitchell Owens explains the grandmother’s values and her relationship with wealth, and social order as they are all heredity. He states

What comes to mind when you hear the word ‘grandmother’? You should be thinking something along the lines of how grandmothers are loving, selfless, and caring towards their children and grandchildren. A typical grandmother loves to spoil their grandchildren, and do anything they can to help them succeed and be happy. As seen in the story, this is not the case for this particular grandmother. The grandmother really couldn’t care less about her family, and she wants everything to happen her way, and her way only.

The first characteristic of the Grandmother, in this story, is that she obtains everything what she wants. At the beginnings the reader can appreciate that she does not desire to go to Florida because she has family in Tennessee. She always tries to see the scene to her favor or her way when there is something against of her. Also, O’Connor creates an astute grandmother. An

Each member gives the impression not to care about one another’s feeling. The grandmother is the center of all attention, from the where they had the accident to how they died. Flannery states, “The horrible thought she had had before the accident was that the house she had remembered so vividly was not in Georgia but in Tennessee” (Flannery, 8). This could be interpreted as the grandmother is to be held responsible for accident because she knew the house she was talking, is not located in Georgia. However, she made the choice not say anything.

The Continued Persistance of Nostalgia This persistence of living in the past is quite visible to the reader as we progress through the story. After the family had embarked on their vacation road trip it was not long until the Grandmother had begun to speak about landmarks they were passing as well as scenes that she would like to paint. While the children were rather unamused by their grandmothers recanting of the past, the Grandmother was living in only her memory this is further reflected with how excited the Grandmother seems when passing an old family graveyard. “They passed a large cotton field with five or fix graves fenced in the middle of it, like a small island.

A literal interpretation of the grandmother portrays an elderly southern woman attempting to maintain the proper and genteel values of the South. The grandmother places great importance on her appearance and the opinions of others. This importance is revealed at the beginning of their journey when the story compares the grandmother, a reflection of the past, to the daughter-in-law, a reflection of the present:

The passage 2BR02B has many morals to the story. This story is unique because of the way the author portrays it’s theme. The author uses the misperfections and our life to show what we really have. The overall theme of the passage is don’t take things life for granted.