The Grandmother 2

In the story A Good Man Is Hard To Find, the grandmother is shown to be a very self-centered person who thinks that the world revolves around her. The author makes this fact known right away. The grandmother "...didn't want to go to Florida... and she was seizing every chance to change Bailey's mind" (O'Connor 354). These first two lines show how selfish she is, meaning, she is only concerned with herself and has no reagard …

…get her own son Bailey to do what she wanted, so she thought if she could connect with the misfit in a mother/son way, then she would get him, also, to do what she wanted. Of course, in the end, none of that worked. The grandmother's selfish, controlling attitude and the way she manipulated other people, had no bearing on her fate. For the misfit was even more selfish and controlling than she was.