A Good Man Is Hard To Find

O?Connor lets us know whose story this is in the first two lines, ?The grandmother didn?t want to go to Florida. She wanted to visit some of her connections in east Tennessee and she was seizing at every chance to change Bailey?s mind? (2148). O?Connor is not giving us any thoughts. She is giving us background information about what happens just before the story starts that only an omniscient or panoramic narrator …

…either a limited or total omniscient point of view. O?Connor meets Burroughway?s definitions of both limited omniscient and total omniscient point of view. We see most of the action through the point of view of the grandmother, limited omniscience. We also get a panoramic view and an objective report of what is happening, total omniscience. The result is a story that is neither limited nor total omniscience, but a subtle mixture of both.