"A Good Man is Hard to Find could be considered southern grotesque in many ways. First of all, the book starts out with, what seems to be a normal dysfunctional family. They fit the almost stereotypical image of a family with parents, a son, a daughter, and even a grandmother. It seems that they are just going to go on a simple road trip with narrations from the grandma the whole way. To have this, what we thought was simple, plot take a turn for the absolute worst could definitely be considered grotesque. The terrible instances don't even stop at a car accident where mother and baby are thrown from a car, but keep going with a serial killer being the one to their "rescue" and picking them off a few at a time.
There wasn't much of a warning that the story was going to take a turn either. The grandmothers manipulations throughout the story seemed harmless until I actually got to the end. So what she wanted to go to Tennessee instead of Florida. So what if she convinced the kids there was a treasure in a house down a dirt road. It all seemed so harmless until you realize that her manipulative ways aided in the death of an entire family on a dirt road. In the end, when the grandmother cannot talk her way out of the Misfits deathly clutch we realize that this is a gory tale. I can see how this story fits in a category that entails negatives in society like moral corruption and violence.
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