The Misfit Character Analysis

One tends to meet someone who seems to be in charge of everyone around him or her. The grandmother in Flannery O’Conner’s A Good Man is Hard to Find is an extraordinary, scheming character that is extremely unrelenting in her actions to control people. On the contrary, she may have been a person just trying to attempt to save her own life without trying to be controlling. Maybe the fact that she was raised in a time when woman wore dresses to go out and never did anything unlady-like, made her think that her way of thinking and acting was the only acceptable behavior, even till the very moments before she was killed by the Misfit. The grandmother was trying to change her killer’s outlook on life and his position on holy grace and

Both incidents are prime examples that show the grandmother?s behavior. We see that the grandmother is selfish and uncaring. She claims that she is a "good" person, yet she criticizes everyone and always wants to get her way. She hides the cat and lies about it to her son; she did not consider how anyone would feel about her bringing the cat. Yet, on the other hand she is very concerned with social opinion. She is dressed nicely, her excuse is that "in case of an accident anyone seeing her dead on the highway would know that she was a lady" (O?Connor 907). This shows that the grandmother was very concerned with people?s opinion. She acted proper, had strong virtues, values; a good woman in her view. But she was a self- centered person who judged others harshly, so that she would look good.

Even though we can surmise from the reading the grandmother’s family is being murdered just feet away from her, the author’s use of grotesque characterization makes it difficult to be sympathetic to the grandmother (Kirszner & Mandell, 2012). When the grandmother “raised her head like a parched old turkey hen” it is difficult to sympathize due to this dehumanizing characterization (Kirszner & Mandell, 2012, p. 308). A picture is painted so vividly the reader can almost visualize the grandmother as a cartoon character shrieking as she called out in desperation for her “Bailey Boy” (Kirszner & Mandell, 2012, p.

In this day and age, society appears to be a man’s world. From the differences in the average salary, to basic, everyday treatment, men reap the benefits. In the novel Divergent, the author, Veronica Roth, develops strong female roles in order to defy and oppose common gender roles and stereotypes and to highlight the flaws in this seemingly perfect futuristic society.

In “A Good Man Is Hard to Find”, the grandmother is known to be a judgmental lady from the very beginning and she is not afraid to voice her opinion regardless of who the person is. For example, in the beginning of the story she is complaining about the trip the family is making to Florida for the reason being, she rather travel to Tennessee. She later finds out that the Misfit is making his way towards Florida and she attempts to convince her son to change his mind by telling him, “I wouldn’t take my children in any direction with a criminal like that a loose in it. I couldn’t answer to my conscience if I did.” (O’Connor pg. 378). She always has to give her opinion on issues she doesn’t abide with. The grandmother also thought of herself as superior to those around her just because she was a lady. When in fact, she was

Soon after a car pulled up to the scene with three guys who stepped out. Taking a minute to stare at the family down into the ditch, they began communicating. The children were in shock from being involved in this bizarre accident, only able to shout at the guys that they have just been in an accident. The grandmother still in a frenzy gathering her thoughts together blurted out ‘We rolled over twice’ but then the older guy corrected her saying he saw the accident (possibly from afar) and saw the car roll over ‘once’ he said. The unfortunate part of this predicament came as the grandmother studied the man a bit more. she seemed to recognize him so she begun to stare more intensely at his face as he spoke. She soon noticed that he was ‘The Misfit’ who had escaped from prison.

The central character can range from the person within a story that undergoes the largest change than any of the other characters to the character that the plot primarily revolves around to the person that has the biggest impact of the plot.Though the main protagonist can exist as the central character, the central character does not have to serve as the main character of a story. A story can have more than one central character as a one character can experience an epiphany while another character can have a massive effect on the plot. A central character drives the storyline forward either by foreshadowing future events or causing those events that lead to the climax, and at times do both. Authors of short stories commonly use foreshadowing as way to help explain the plot to the reader as well as create

In Anthony Winkler's, The Duppy, sex at any time is depicted as being morally right and expected by women and in a way the characters main source of joy and happiness. This depiction of sex challenges a particular way of thinking because, the thought of sex in heaven challenges gender roles, because in heaven the woman are the ones who control the sexual world. The thought of sex in heaven is a difficult concept to grasp when it comes to a religious sense. Circumstances such as heaven is religious ideal and men usually are the typical gender that sparks the whole idea, make it challenging when looking at alternative ways of thinking.

especially those who may be very different from herself.”. (Kirk 1). Before, she was afraid of The Misfit- as she should be-and it was not until her epiphany that her view of The Misfit truly changed. (Kirk 1). Because the grandmother saw The Misfit, a person who could be interpreted as the anti-Christ, as someone she could sympathize with, she supposedly received grace. (Bethea 2). However, it was only under life threatening circumstances and she was unable to understand the little black boy in the end. Moreover, not only was the grandmother supposedly redeemed despite remaining superficial, but her family was sacrificed as well. The other family members were not necessarily exemplary human beings, but they did not deserve being killed for

is normal for people to share morals and how with that comes similar values (Dempsey 324). Due to the two having similar morals the grandmother deemed Red Sammy as a good man after he questioned why it was that he let the two strangers get away with what they had did when she said,” Because you're a good man!” (O’Connor 122). It is clear that gullibility and respectable gestures is what makes a man good in her eyes and Red Sammy was in agreeance.

The grandmother is a sympathetic character, in the begging Bailey her son wanted to take the family on a trip to Florida. The grandmother showed him an article about The Misfit whom escaped from the Federal Penitentiary and was headed towards Florida. She was sympathetic in this situation by saying “I would not take my children in any direction with a criminal like that loose in it. I could’t answer to my conscience if I did.” She was showing that she did not think it was a smart idea or safe to take the family where there was a criminal on the loose.

Both Richard Donner’s 1985 adventure comedy The Goonies written by Steven Spielberg, and Rob Reiner’s 1986 coming-of-age drama Stand By Me based on Stephen King’s novella The Body, portray several characters to be misfits in society. The Goonies follows the story of a group of misfits on a treasure hunt to save their home from foreclosure and Stand By Me is a writer’s recount of the death of a friend and a boyhood journey to find the missing body of Ray Bowers. Narrative perspective, sound, characterisation, camera angles, and symbolism, contribute to various themes which Donner and Reiner exploit to evoke supportive emotion for misfits.

The response is based on my experience that was faced with overcoming the obstacle of my "misfit" situation, which began on September 8th, 2015 that continued onto April 11th, 2017. It will feature the overall story, evidence, and my obstacle of finding the best college for me. This paper has a strong sense regarding to the definition of “misfit” doing something out of ordinary to where I’m at as a college student.

The grandmother wanted to make sure if she died, people would recognize her. All the family was dressed in t-shirts and pants for the car ride to Florida but “the grandmother had on a navy blue straw sailor hat with a bunch of white violets on the brim and a navy blue dress with a small white dot in the print. Her collars and cuffs were white organdy trimmed with lace and at her neckline she had pinned a purple spray of cloth violets containing a sachet” (368). This just shows that the grandmother cares about her appearance and what others think about her. It almost makes it seems like she planned this whole thing in her head. When she was having a conversation with the misfit she asked, “You wouldn’t shoot a lady, would you?” (373). The grandmother seems like she only cares for safety right now and not anyone else’s. As the grandmother, she should be trying to protect her family instead she’s protecting her own life.

Throughout the novel A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway, Frederic Henry’s actions and attitudes towards the people he meets and the experiences he encounters reflect his development as a Hemingway Code Hero. The Hemingway Hero is a very distant person who goes through life unattached. He is physically there, but emotionally uninvolved. Frederic Henry possesses these traits over the course of the book. He develops as a Hemingway Hero because no matter where he goes or what he experiences, he is always able to be somewhere without emotionally involving and attaching himself to places or people.