Allusion In The Grandmothers Mind example essay topic

Allusion in O? Conner?'s? A Good Man Is Hard to Find? An allusion of an old woman looking for good blood in her son, and possible her (late) husband, only to find out, it's actually the grandmother who lacks good blood. O? Conner states that the grandmother wants to go to Tennesee to see some of her? other connections? (paragraph 1).

This is an allusion that she may possibly have other children. Her (only) son, Bailey treats her with disrespect by ignoring her wishes to go to Tennesee. The all? sion O? Conner could be using is the Grandmother may be trying to find? good blood? in her son, and that could be why she still lives with him. This is the same blood that she probably couldn? t find in her husband... The grandmother believes she has the power to control the behavior of the characters, via her own moral beliefs, – in itself– is an allusion.

O? Conner uses imagery descriptions of the characters several places in the story, that may reflect the view though the Grandmother's rose colored glasses. Bailey is described as a bald, quiet man whose character may be an allusion to his father's own behavior. The only time he speaks to his mother throughout this story is when he is yelling at her after the accident (paragraph 85). The children's mother, with her hair always tied in a green scarf (an allusion of curlers in her hair), and wearing slacks, is an allusion by the grandmother as? not lady like? The children are described as rude, sassy, and spoiled (an allusion to all grandmothers), that grand? children can do no wrong.

As the story unfolds, they make a the trip to Florida. Along the way, they stop in a small town in Georgia to get something to eat. The characters at the dinner are an allusion to how life might have been with the grandmother. Red Sammy Butts is constantly bossing his wife around Poer page 2 (paragraph 34, 42), which may be the reason the Grandmother took such a liking towards him, which may have reminded her of her husband. The Grandmother fell asleep in the car and awoke with the vision of a mansion. The clarity, right down to the arbors, could be the allusion of a home to a past beau who came to court the Grandmother.

She recounts a story of a man, Edgar Atkins Teagarden, who was very good-looking and a gentleman (paragraph 26). Why she didn? t marry this man – a good man– is an allusion in the story I can? t seem to figure out. This allusion in the Grandmothers mind, that Edgar Teagarden may still be there waiting to be found, leads the family off the main road onto a side road where they meet their final destiny. O? Conner's use of allusion, while the Grandmother's reflection of her past is being played out, conforms to the realities of what lies ahead for her future. The Misfit claims that he was a good man (at one time), but over time, had changed into a behavior of something evil (paragraph 100).

This accident didn? t happen by accident. A key factor in the story is that the grandmother knew the car they were in was on the wrong path, and she probably has been her whole life. O? Conner toys with the reader in believing that? good old granny? in reality has be? comes just as evil as the Misfit. After the accident, she pretends to be hurt, not caring if anyone else in the vehicle is hurt.

When she sees the bespectacled Misfit, she swears she has known him all her life. Could this be a brief moment of an allusion to Edgar Teagarden? She speaks kindly to the Misfit, and in return, he is kind to her. Several times she pleads with the Misfit to pray, but no where in the story does the reader ever hear of the Grandmother praying. When the Misfit puts on the shirt of her son, O? Conner's use of allusion reflects back to the Grandmother, putting her in a state of mind that the Misfit could be one of her children.

It is not until she claims that he is? one of her babies? (paragraph 138), that he kills her. This could be another allusion Poer page 3 in O? Conner's writing to portray the spawn of the devil. The allusion of an old woman, geared towards her son and possibly her (late) husband to change them into good men, fails her. Her frustration of being trapped in her past eventually comes to a grotesque murder of her and her family.

O? Conner's writing compels the reader to believe everything is going to have a happy ending, only to pull the wall over the reader's eyes with an allusion of evil..