Questions for “A Good Man is Hard to Find” – O’ Connor (1953) -prepared by Ece
1. Who is ‘The Misfit’ that the grandmother reads about in the newspaper?
2. Why does the grandmother try to convince her daughter-in-law to go to east Tennessee?
3. What kind of a woman is the grandmother? How does she dress up, what kind of activities
does she like and etc. ?
4. How do the kids and the grandmother see Tennessee differently?
5. Who is Mr. Edgar Atkins Teagarden that the grandmother tells a story about in the car?
6. Why does the man say ‘A Good Man is Hard to Find’ in the conversation?
7. Where is the family going on the dirtroad?
8. Who passes by the dirtroad after the accident?
9. Why does the criminal calls himself ‘The Misfit’?
10. What happens to the family in the end?