A Good Grandmother is Hard To Find

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portray her as narrow-minded and selfish. An example of this would be at the beginning of the story when she tries to persuade her son, Bailey, into traveling to East Tennessee rather then Florida because she wanted to visit some of her old friends. She attempts to persuade Bailey by explaining that a criminal is loose in Florida. “Here this fellow that calls himself The Misfit is aloose from the Federal Pen and headed toward Florida,” she explains, “I wouldn’t take my children in any direction with a criminal like that aloose in it” (p.311). She tries to make her son believe that she wants to travel to East Tennessee to avoid The Misfit, but she really just wants to see her friends. A second example towards the beginning of the story that shows her selfishness is when she sneaks her cat into the car knowing fully that her son does not want to take it. She ignores the opinion of her son and brings the cat anyways, which later causes the wreck that puts the family in the ...

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