<P> A man named Bailey intends to take his family from Georgia to Florida for a summer vacation , but his mother , ( referred to as `` the grandmother '' in the story ) wants him to drive to East Tennessee , where the grandmother has friends ( `` connections '' ) . She argues that his children , John Wesley and June Star , have never been to East Tennessee , and she shows him a news article in the Atlanta Journal Constitution about an escaped murderer who calls himself The Misfit last seen in Florida . The next day , the grandmother wakes up early to hide her cat , Pitty Sing , in a basket on the floor in the back of the car . She is worried that the cat would die while they were gone . Bailey finds her sitting in the car , dressed in her best clothes and an ostentatious hat ; she says that if she should die in an accident along the road , she wants people to see her corpse and know she was refined and `` a lady . '' The Grandmother talks continuously during the trip , trying to engage her two rude grandchildren in games and telling them jokes and a story , about which June Star makes disdainful comments . She recalls her youth in the Old South , reminiscing about her courtships and how much better everything was in her time , when children were respectful and people `` did right then . '' When the family stops at an old diner outside of Timothy for lunch , she talks to the owner , Red Sammy , about The Misfit . He and the grandmother agree that things were much better in the past and that the world at present is degenerate ; she concurs with Sammy 's remark that `` a good man is hard to find . '' </P>
<P> A man named Bailey intends to take his family from Georgia to Florida for a summer vacation , but his mother , ( referred to as `` the grandmother '' in the story ) wants him to drive to East Tennessee , where the grandmother has friends ( `` connections '' ) . She argues that his children , John Wesley and June Star , have never been to East Tennessee , and she shows him a news article in the Atlanta Journal Constitution about an escaped murderer who calls himself The Misfit last seen in Florida . The next day , the grandmother wakes up early to hide her cat , Pitty Sing , in a basket on the floor in the back of the car . She is worried that the cat would die while they were gone . Bailey finds her sitting in the car , dressed in her best clothes and an ostentatious hat ; she says that if she should die in an accident along the road , she wants people to see her corpse and know she was refined and `` a lady . '' The Grandmother talks continuously during the trip , trying to engage her two rude grandchildren in games and telling them jokes and a story , about which June Star makes disdainful comments . She recalls her youth in the Old South , reminiscing about her courtships and how much better everything was in her time , when children were respectful and people `` did right then . '' When the family stops at an old diner outside of Timothy for lunch , she talks to the owner , Red Sammy , about The Misfit . He and the grandmother agree that things were much better in the past and that the world at present is degenerate ; she concurs with Sammy 's remark that `` a good man is hard to find . '' </P>
who goes on the family road trip to florida a good man is hard to find
who goes on the family road trip to florida a good man is hard to find
Bailey his mother , ( referred to as `` the grandmother '' in the story ) John Wesley June Star cat , Pitty Sing
Bailey his mother , ( referred to as `` the grandmother '' in the story ) John Wesley June Star cat , Pitty Sing