"A Good Man is Hard To Find"

The first time I read this story about two years ago, I was so shocked at how it ended that I re-read the last couple of pages numerous times, trying to make sure that what happened actually happened. I couldn’t believe that she died, right there on the page, after having lead herself and her family into these woods in a cause and effect sort of way. It is sad what happened to the family, as well as the grandmother. I can honestly say that though she didn’t have all of the answers like she thought she did, she didn’t deserve death, and nor did her family. Her poor grandchildren, I feel had no choice but to act the way that they did. They were young, and children behave the way the people around them do, therefore I was really saddened by their deaths. I’m sure that had the grandmother survived this ordeal with the misfit and had only been scared into being an actually “good” person, then her grandchildren would have changed as well. It’s a shame that the Grandmother died right after finding redemption in a sense.