A Good Man is Hard to Find

"A Good Man Is Hard to Find" is a short story written by Flannery O'Connor. The story appears in the collection of short stories of the same name. The interpretive work of scholars often focuses on the controversial final scene.

A man named Bailey intends to take his family from Georgia to Florida for a summer vacation, but his mother, (referred to as "the grandmother" in the story) wants him to drive to East Tennessee, where they have relatives. She argues that his children, John Wesley and...