The twist and turns of “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” leave the reader perplexed and riveted, relaying that the utmost thought went into the outline of the story. The author leaves the readers waiting for good to prevail over evil but never lets them have their intended ending as most stories do which is what gives this story its intriguing draw. In “A Good Man is Hard to Find” Flannery O'Connor uses literary techniques such as conflicts, foreshadowing, imagery, simile, and irony to create eccentric characters and a twisted plot. In “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” there are a few eccentric characters who are in constant conflict. The grandmother, as all other grandmothers, can run a person’s ear into the ground with her eccentric views and aimless ramblings. She is never direct and spins her conversations into long detailed stories. Her inability to stop talking is what ends up getting her killed (959). Every so often there is peace and quiet, but not that often. Bailey her son often shows discontent for his mother. She apparently gets on his nerves, but there is probably still love for her although the story never quite expresses it. The children wonder why the grandmother came along, but they know she would not have stayed at the house even if she could have been “‘queen for a day’” (948). The grandmother’s clothing makes her stand out as a prominent old lady so much that if she were to be found dead on the side of the road, people would at once recognize that she is a lady (948). The reader can tell the grandmother is from the South and was reared in a less racially tolerant neighborhood. She uses several derogatory statements and jokes throughout “A Good Man is Hard to Find.” She makes one joke about a pumpkin on someone’s porch with the initials E.A.T. carved in it, and the little boy’s being ignorant, ate the pumpkin that was intended for her. (949). She also uses derogatory terms such as “nigger” and “pickaninny” (949). Grandmother in her old-South ways does not realize she is being politically incorrect. The Misfit, another main character, is sort of ominous, but always there in the back of the reader’s mind. The