Setting
Where does the family begin there road trip?
Where is Georgia
Who is the main Character?
Who is the grandmother
What causes the family to crash their car?
What is the grandmother's cat jumping out of its basket
What does the grandmother's fancy clothing symbolize?
What is her wanting to appear proper and ladylike
What theme is suggested by the title?
What is the nature of goodness and moral decay
Where is the family traveling for their vacation?
Where is Florida
Who Is the criminal that escapes from prison?
Who is the Misfit
Why doesn't the grandmother want to go to Florida at first?
Why is that she wants to go to Tennessee instead
What does the cat represent
What is the grandmas selfishness
How does O'Connor use violence in the end?
How is by revealing deeper truths about faith and morality
What type of place do they end up stranded in after the car accident?
What is a dirt road in the countryside
What is the name of the family's little boy?
What is John Wesley
What mistake does the grandmother make that leads them to the misfit?
What is she remembers the wrong location of the old house
What does Bailey's shirt represent?
What is how O'Connor uses symbolism to show the childishness of Bailey. But O'Connor creates a deeper meaning of increasing seriousness of the situation and Bailey's increasing fear of the situation.
What themes does The Misfit express?
What is moral emptiness and hopelessness
What kind of landscape is the place where they meet The Misfit?
What is a wooded area or forest
What is the name of the family's little girl?
What Is June Star
What does The Misfit's gang do to the family after the crash?
What is they take them into the woods and kill them
What is the car crash?
What is the turning point in the story
What theme is shown by the Grandmother's realization at the end?
What is that she is just as flawed as everyone else
What Landscape do they drive through before the accident?
What is backroads, dirt roads, and wooded countryside
Who are the other 2 adults that go on the trip with the family besides the grandma?
Who are Bailey and his Wife
What happens to the grandma at the end?
What is she go bye bye
What does grandma touching the misfit represent?
What is possibly a moment of spiritual awakening, grace, forgiveness, humanization
Why was the Grandma looking up to heaven when she died?
What is the point O'Conner made to portray the Grandma to call out people who think of themselves as morally just and call out to god to ask for forgiveness when forgiveness isn't deserved