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In four pages this paper discusses how the personalities of these characters were responsible for learning experiences that had negative outcomes for themselves and their families. Two sources are cited in the bibliography.
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experiences, and outcomes that can significantly impact others. This is evident in Flannery OConnors 1955 short story A Good Man is Hard to Find and in Arthur Millers 1949
Pulitzer prize-winning play, Death of a Salesman. The protagonists in each work, the Grandmother in OConnors story and Willy Loman in Millers social drama have very distinctive psychological or
personality characteristics that propel the action. Their individual qualities necessitate learning an important life lesson. Unfortunately, however, this lesson as a negative impact not only on themselves but
also on members of their families as well. The grandmother of A Good Man is Hard to Find lives with her son Bailey, his wife, and their three children.
It is obvious that the family matriarch exerts considerable control over the family and everyone in it. As a result, Bailey is stern and remote, his wife says little
or nothing - she would seldom have any opportunity to get a word in edgewise anyway - and the children completely ignore their grandmother. This does not deter the
grandmother from pushing her own selfish needs to the forefront and do as she pleases. For example, when the family decided to go to Florida on a vacation, the
grandmother expressed her preference for visiting relatives in Tennessee. When that proved unsuccessful despite her ploy to frighten the family with the news that the escaped mass murderer The
Misfit was headed in the direction of Florida, the grandmother smuggled her cat Pitty Sing along on the trip despite knowing how Bailey would not "want to arrive at a
motel with a cat" (OConnor 661). She would constantly berate Bailey about how fast he was driving, incessantly reminding him "that the speed limit was fifty-five miles an hour
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