The Antagonist of the story Was the Misfit the antagonist in the story or was it the Grandmother? In A Good Man Is Hard To Find, by Flannery O’Conner, a family of five decides to go on vacation. Many things go wrong resulting in a terrible ending. The author uses a lot of foreshadowing to show how the story will end. She does this to make the Grandmothers unawareness clear. It is evident that …showed first 75 words of 317 total…

…showed last 75 words of 317 total…nature that is proof that she is the antagonist of the story. If she had acted like a normal person the events that took place would not have happened. The Misfit was an evil person, but he was truthful and had to do what was necessary so that he didn’t get caught. It wasn’t what he had done that ended the family, but what the actions of the Grandmother that got them killed.