Southern "grotesque"

Flannery O'Connel's short story "A Good Man Is Hard To Find," is a perfect example of Southern Grotesque because it focuses on irony, the wrong turn on a family vacation, getting in a wreck, living through it, yet still meet their demise and get shot to death. The story also posseses a secular "grotesque" character, "The Misfit," who is the escaped killer convict. "A Good Man Is Hard To Find" reminds me in a  way of a biblical tale of family morals gone awry and their punishment. In the first sceen you have the grandmother, or soothsayer, who foreshadows the story when she says to Bailey, her only son for whom she lives with, "See here, read this," And she stood with one hand on her thin hip and the other rattling the newspaper at his bald head. "Here this fellow that calls himself The Misfit is aloose from the Fedral Pen and headed toward Florida." The son disregards her "old womanly" worries, thus not respecting thy mother and thy father, one of the ten commandments. The next circumstance that makes it a Southern grotesque masterpice is that the family turns down an old dusty road (of no return) because the granny want to see her home when she was a child, and then she realizes that she is actually thinking of a totally different state. The grandmother lied and manipulated to get her there, showing her deciet."It's not much farther," the grandmother said and just as she said it, a horrible thought came to her. The thought was so embarassing that she turned red in the face and her eyes dialated and her feet jumped up." The lie that set off a chain reaction leading them to wreck the car into a ditch. The children are misbehaved, disrespectful of adults, feeling sad that no one had died in the crash, not even paying attention to their mother who had a broken collarbone and their baby brother was of no concern either. Another notch on the ten comandments belt. The father disrespecting his mother, the children disrespecting all other adults, the grandmothers manipulation into getting what she wanted because she knew her son wouldn't honor her wishes, all cardinal sins, leads to their demise by The Misfit. He is the secular grotesque character in the story because you sermise that he grew up poor and abused by his father, feeling sorry for him, yet he kills a family in cold blood, even the little baby. The Misfit says to the grandmother, who's decietful actions got them into the whole perdicament, "Jesus thrown everything off balance," in turn being the family's ironic punisher for their "moral shortcomings." The tale is a "wrong turn"into the Southern Gothic style of writing and its deep seeded "moral corruption and human capacity for evil."(i'm sorry but the spell check doesnt work for some reason so i did my best)