A Good Man ...

I read "A Good Man is Hard to Find" and thought it was predictable from the start. When the grandmother talks about The Misfit and the things that he'd done to people, and the fact that he was heading to Florida like they were, you just knew that somewhere down the line they would come across him. Foreshadowing was used to let the reader know that something bad was going to happen. Just outside a town called Toomsboro, the grandmother gets her "idea" to go see this plantation that she had once visited. The house on the plantation had six columns, and there were six of them in the car. The passed a graveyard that the grandmother said was a "family" graveyard. Bailey is reluctant to take the time to find this plantation, but eventually gives in leading the reader to wonder how they would of run across The Misfit if they hadn't taken that backroad. After they had the accident, June Star says "[b]ut nobody's killed" (O'Connor 359), and she sounds disappointed. I think its funny that when Bailey and Bobby Lee go back in the woods and they hear two pistol shots, that there isn't any real emotion shown. Do they know what's going on the woods? When the children's mother and daughter are asked if they want to join her husband and son, she seems way too willing to go. Are they not aware that they are dead or does she just want to get it over with ? All in all I didn't care for the story, but I did find the foreshadowing used very interesting.