In the story, "A Good Man is Hard to Find" by Flannery O'Connor, Baileys mother views herself as a respectable and wise southern lady.However, to the reader, her actions reveal that she is in fact another person.We know this to be true because she primps excessively, lies, uses racist language, and mistakenly tells that she recognizes The Misfit. We do not see this other side of the grandmother until the story takes a tragic turn and then begin to realize that she is not who she pretends to be. The author uses informal language, different points-of-view, foreshadowing, and irony to depict the satire of southern religious beliefs throughout the entire piece. To begin with, the author uses heavy informal language such as southern slang terms, and accents that may actually cause readers to not understand or grasp the meaning of the passages. O'Connor not only depicts a natural southern accent but she also allows the characters to maintain some aspect of intelligence, which allows the audience to focus on the meaning of the passage, rather than the overbearing burden of interpreting a rather "foreign language.".
Secondly, the authors transitions between third-person to first-person throughout the poem give readers a better overall understanding of the story. In the beginning, she describes how each of the characters feel about going to Florida and their relationships to one another. Then the narrator describes the grandmother's personal thoughts and feelings throughout the entire trip which in turn reveal her true self. As readers, we first see the first-person point-of-view as the narrator tells how the grandmother did not want to leave her cat at home alone because he would miss her too much and she feared he would accidentally smother himself with the stove burners. .
Continuing on, this part is first-person because it goes directly into the grandmother's mind, telling us why she brought the cat along secretly.
