Reflection #2 "The Grandmother Told You Not to Go that Way"

This was a horrifying, deadly, poisonous and disturber week. Starting with “A Rose for Emily” a short story about a woman who sleeps with a dead body and finishing with “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” another short story about a family who were killed by a group of three criminals. The most incredible about this is that a woman also named Emily, here in Puerto Rico, did the same as Emily in the story, slept with a dead body. Aaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh!!!!! How crazy, maniac, and psycho one should be to sleep with a dead body. If that is incredible, what about killing a whole family, including the children. That was what happened in “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” and what I’m going to write about.

Everything started when the family planed to go to Florida. The grandmother adverted her son not to go to Florida because there were a murderer so she wanted to go to Tennessee but her son denied to, so all the routes pointed at Florida where The Misfit, the murderer, with his gang members were looking for their next victim, in this case victims. What capture me the attention is that, like most places, there’s a place to stay a couple of hours for entertainment and to take some food. I’m talking about The Tower, the Red Sammy’s restaurant. That’s biblical, that was like the last dinner they had before dying. Of course that nobody, except God, know when where or how you will die, but what I want to show you is that looked like the last dinner.

The funniest thing of this is that the grandmother though they were going to Tennessee, so she told the family about a house with a secret panel causing the children to get interested in it. I think she had Alzheimer or something like that to not to recognize the area and that was critical and probably what moved them to a tragic future. They were the people with the worth lucky in the world to have an accident in the worth place in the worth moment. And this man, The Misfit, with his sick mind and with the help of his gang members kills them crudely and with no reason.

The question is why he kills them? What did the family to push him to do that? The father, the mother and the children, he killed them all. The most impacting moment of the story is when the grandmother tries to persuade him to not to kill her, but to start praying and to believe in God. This was an interesting part because, in a difficult moment like that, the grandmother was telling to The Misfit that God is the right way and that he should start to pray when, in a certain form, she was also loosing her faith. What leaved me with some doubts was that, after The Misfit killed the grandmother, Bobby Lee said “Some fun!” and The Misfit said to him “Shut up, Bobby Lee. It’s no real pleasure in life.” Did he suddenly felt sorry of what he did?