Reflection on “A Good Man is Hard to Find”

While reading Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” the elements of writing that stood out most to me were foreshadowing and irony. The grandmother reading about the Misfit in the newspaper foreshadowed the fate of the family. The grandmother and Red Sam talking about how you cannot trust anyone anymore and then again mentioning the Misfit foreshadowed yet again that this family would run into trouble. The irony of the grandmother warning against running into the Misfit and then her mistake of leading them right to him was almost laughable.