Flannery uses a short story’s criteria to justify that, indeed, a good man is hard to find. Bailey, the first character in the story, had a wish of taking his family out for a vacation from Georgia to Florida. In the course of departure, Bailey faces a change of plan following his mother’s argument, who want to be driven to Tennessee. She criticizes their earlier destination as the premise of a certain murderer, making her win the change of plan. On the way, the grandmother realizes that the premise of the murderer was in their current destination. Following the shock, she frightens the cat in the car, which sprang onto Bailey’s shoulder, making him lose control over the car and landed in a ditch. The grandmother seeking help flags down a car with little knowledge that it belonged to the Misfit, the murderer. This followed their sudden death together with the grandmother, who was the last to die trying to use biblical judgment to escape her fate.
Following Flannery’s story, a good man is hard to find. One, the Misfit had been jailed out of unfair judgment. Seeking revenge, he deliberately brings Bailey’s family to an end by killing them. It later ends with him punishing his colleague following his sarcastic remarks. Adding on the same, if the grandmother had not changed the whole plan, the unexpected would not have happened. More so, Bailey is acting more on other people’s prejudice, leaving little chance to conclude his own decision. The grandmother is also killed regardless of her attempt to use the bible story to justify herself, and this concludes that a good man is indeed hard to find.