Blog Assignment # 4 A Good Man is Hard to Find

In the story A Good Man Is Hard to Find we understand the reality of that, a good man is hard to find. A family of an American Southern background embarks upon a family vacation and run into “the Misfit” a serial killer on the loose that escaped from Federal Prison. This Southern family believes in God and forgiveness. They believe in repenting and asking for forgiveness through prayer. The misfit felt he was wrongly accused and sentenced to prison. He claims he was in there for so long he doesn’t understand his crime. He doesn’t believe in God anymore and certainly does not want to pray. The misfit claims he has lost all of his morals once he was wrongfully imprisoned. He does not understand why he should be good now when he was imprisoned for being good. This story lets the readers believe the family will have a happy ending, that the family will meet a good man. The story does not end that way. The story is grotesque. From the very beginning of the story the old woman pointed out a newspaper clipping about the Misfit, along the way she mentioned the Misfit to the diner the family ate at, and when they wreck there vehicle it’s the Misfit they run into. Instead of saving the family and being grateful for being out of prison the Misfit shoots the family and takes their belongings to his better gain. The Misfit is a secular grotesque those who have for one reason or another rejected God's will and seek to destroy the soul in an attempt to save the body. The Misfit sees no reason to let the family live and does not care; he proves the title to be somewhat true A Good Man is Hard to Find.