Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find" is filled with foreshadowing which the first time reader will not grasp, but leaps out of the pages for repeated readers. When first read, the reader does not value the importance of the grandmother charter and her warning. She is thought to just be a rambling, nagging old lady. Even the grandmother does not realize the importance of what she is saying. The grandmother warns of …showed first 75 words of 637 total…

…showed last 75 words of 637 total…the first time. This is a great novel to read, but must be read more than once for a true appreciation of how well O'Connor fools the reader. By convincing the reader that the family would never run into to The Misfit, and that no harm would ever come to this normal family Works Cited: "Flannery O'Connor's 'A Good Man is Hard to find'" Essortment Home Page. http://mnmn.essortment.com/flannery oconno_rkk.html