In "A Good Man is Hard to Find", it's time to take a trip to Florida for a family vacation. About halfway through their journey, Bailey, the father of the family, reluctantly falls in love with his children, John Wesley and June Star, and takes them to see the old plantation their grandmother previously mentioned. Turning onto the dirt road, grandma says the house is on and drives for a while; the grandmother realizes that the house is actually in Tennessee and not Georgia. It is at this point that the hidden Pitty Sing escapes from the bin and attaches itself to Bailey's neck. Bailey wrecks the car and the children's mother breaks her shoulder, but there are no other injuries, which upsets June Star more than the fact that an accident actually occurred. As the family sits and waits, a car arrives, but it's not the kind of help they were expecting. It's the Misfit and his two-man team of Bobby Lee and Hiram. The grandmother recognizes the Misfit and tries to convince him that he is a good man and "comes from good people" and does not want to kill the family, but above all her, a lady. "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" by Flannery O'Connor uses the archetype of the journey to illustrate that selfishness and manipulation do not always allow you to face life as a winner. An archetype is a recurring image, symbol, character, or situation used to express a universal concept. The travel archetype is one of the most used. Send a character, whether they know it or are sent unknowingly, to seek the truth about a piece of information in their life. That journey includes a series of trials and tribulations that the character will have to go through to understand why she is on this... middle of paper... but, she touched the Misfit's shoulder and he shot her three times. When Bobby Lee and Hiram returned, the grandmother was lying in a pool of blood and looking up at the cloudless sky with a smile on her face. The Misfit says, “She would have been a good woman if there had been someone there to shoot her every minute of her life.” In the end, before dying, the grandmother realizes that the only true "Good Man" who was so difficult to find, is Jesus. It is possible to find him, but it takes a journey of faith that no one expected to do, she included. He had to abandon all his manipulative and self-centered ways, as well as his focus on class and outward manifestations of his Christian beliefs. In exchange for all his earthly effects, he received the grace he had sought all his life. Eventually the grandmother received grace and went to Heaven.