Flannery O’Conner’s classic story, “A Good Man is Hard to Find” details a family’s summer vacation gone fatally wrong. For the first time reader, one might be surprised by the tragic ending to this story. Although, when reread carefully, the reader will see foreshadowing throughout the text building up to this moment. With the grandmother as the narrator, it gives the reader a chance to look into the mind of a self-centered, petty old woman. That being said, O’Conner’s use of foreshadowing throughout the story leads the reader to a predictable yet ironic ending of the family’s murder. Throughout this short story, the predictable demise of the family is given through subtle hints which start at the beginning. While Bailey, the grandmother’s only son, sits at the table, the grandmother starts trying to manipulate him into going to Tennessee instead of Florida by telling him what she just read in the newspaper. “Now look here Bailey,Here this fellow that calls himself The Misfit is aloose from the Federal Pen and headed toward Florida and you read here what it say he did to these people” (405). Now, no level headed person would believe that just because there was a killer on the loose in Florida they would be attacked. This information about the character, Misfit, was placed in the story to hint on the future meeting of Misfit and describe “what it says he do to these people” (405). The future meeting of Misfit is foreshadowed again at The Tower, the restaurant that the family stops to eat at. When the grandmother is talking to Red Sam about how they no longer trust anyone, the grandmother mentions Misfit again, only giving more evidence that Misfit will be an important character later on in the story. The grandmother was, as she said, “a lady”, but her obsession of what people thought of her lead to another hint of her demise. For the trip, the grandmother dressed in her best. She wore a nice dres