Summary

The short story “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor begins with a family getting ready to go on vacation to Florida. The family consists of the grandmother, her son Bailey, his wife, and three children – John Wesley, June Star, and a baby. The grandmother would like to go to Tennessee instead. She mentions an escaped prisoner, the Misfit, who has killed several people and is heading towards Florida. She adds that it would not be safe to take the children there, but no one liste...