Read the following excerpt from Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man Is Hard to find." This short story is about a family
that includes an old woman, her son, Bailey, and the son's wife and children. What is the point of view of the
excerpt? Pick out examples from the text to explain your answer.
Bailey didn't look up from his reading so she [the old woman] wheeled around then and faced the children's
mother, a young woman in slacks, whose face was as broad and innocent as a cabbage and was tied around with
a green head-kerchief that had two points on the top like rabbit's ears. She was sitting on the sofa, feeding the
baby his apricots out of a jar. "The children have been to Florida before," the old lady said. "You all ought to take
them somewhere else for a change so they would see different parts of the world and be broad. They never have
been to east Tennessee."
The children's mother didn't seem to hear her but the eight-year-old boy, John Wesley, a stocky child with
glasses, said, "If you don't want to go to Florida, why dontcha stay at home?" He and the little girl, June Star, were
reading the funny papers on the floor.