What an IRONIC story. Family is going on a trip to Florida and the grandmother is not happy with this decision. She does not want to visit Florida but instead wants to go and visit Tennessee. When the family does not abide she tells them of a killer Misfit who is on the loose in Florida and that it is dangerous to go there at this time. They continue on with their trip and go on to Florida. All of the sudden the grandmother remembered of the house that she used to visit when she was a little girl and thinking that it’s not too far asked her son Bailey to go visit it. when the grandkids joined in with their begging to go visit the house Bailey(not being a strong character and easily influenced) gave in. only once they took a bad, dirty road the grandmother remembered that the house she has visited was not in Georgia (where they were) but in Tennessee. It was too late, their car crashed and rolled over and there was no one around them for miles except for the car coming their way. One of the passengers in the car was Misfit himself. No one survives as the entire family gets shot.
Grandma (whose character I just hate and found to be a b****) didn’t want to go to Florida so her excuse was the killer on the loose Misfit. Unfortunately Misfit had found them at a place that she had taken her family. Such irony. I also found grandma to be very selfish. It was always about her and no one else. She thought of herself higher than of anyone else. She was also more racist than other family members. I was also stunned by the fact than when her entire family was being shot around her all she cared about was her own life and tried everything in her power to save it. She turned to religious and offered Misfit money in return for her life. All she kept saying was “you wouldn't shoot a lady". During this ordeal not once she showed any care of what happened to her family especially since it was her fault that they ended up on the same “road” with Misfit
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yeah, i was shocked too, it reminded me of a twist of a horror flick.
I wonder if the band Misfits named themselves after the killer?
I rhought that this story had a very ironic twist as well, the very thing the granmother was warning them about was the very thing that became the death of them and even more ironic it was becasue of the grandmother.
Yes, all thise ironies are interesting, but, to a great extent, this is a story about values and world views--belief systems that sustain us, and how those may often be illusons--if not self-delusionary. Consider the grandmother as representing a kind of (deep South inflected)world view, and how that world view--what allows her to make sense of the world--is brutally ripped away--what's left? Consider some of the imagery toward the end of the story--description of the sky, what she sees as she looks up for the last time. Other image patterns in the story--such as red dust (characteristic of the Gerogia landscape), would also be worth pursuing...
The grandma wasn't selfish?
"There were two more pistol reports and the grandmother raised her head like a parched old turkey hen crying for water and called, "Bailey Boy, Bailey Boy" as if her heart would break." This was after the last person in the car was shot and she knew she was next, she still cried over the death of someone else instead of spending that time pleeding for her own life.
As Tom said about illusions, it seemed as if the misfit had a strange perception on reality as if what he was doing was the doing of another person.
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