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Term Paper Title	A Change Too Late
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# of Pages (250 words per page double spaced)	3.13

A Change Too Late



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In O'Connor's " A Good Man Is Hard to Find," a power struggle between the Grandmother and "The Misfit," altars the Grandmother's prospective on life. The Grandmother is obstinate, narrow-minded, manipulative and materialistic.  During a family trip; however, "The Misfit" creates a change in the Grandmother while trying to manipulate him into sparing her life.  The self-centered judgmental women comes to accept a person that she would have never dream of speaking to; therefore, "The Misfit" is the catalyst in the Grandmother's behavior.

            The Grandmother wants to change the itinerary of the family trip.  Visiting some friends in Tennessee is her agenda.  For instance, the Grandmother comes into the room hollering at her son Bailey, "'See read this, The Misfit is aloose from the Federal Pen and headed toward Florida,'" she goes on to say, "'I would not take my children in that direction with a criminal like that aloose.  I could not answer to my conscience if I did.'"  It appears that she may be worried about family safety until her next statement: "' The children have been to Florida before, you ought to take them somewhere else for a change so they would see different parts of the world and be broad.  They never have been to Tennessee before.'"   But the woman is not concerned at all about safety; she wants to go to Tennessee to her that was all that matters.  The Grandmothers' manipulation skills do not succeed; the family loads up for Florida.  Everybody is dressed in comfortable clothes; however, she is dressed as if she is going to church.

The road trip consists of the Grandmother critiquing the children's behavior and her stories of her young adulthood.  After lunch The Grandmother persuades Bailey to hunt down an old plantation she knew as a teenager.  An accident caused by the Grandmother's cat leaves the family stranded on the side of the road.  Not to long after the accident, a car comes to help.  Three men get out of the car and after a conversation for a few moments the Grandmother realizes they are faced with "The ...

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