A Good Man Is Hard To Find

WOW.  What a horrendous story.  I am still shook up, and I cried a little.  I was thinking this would be about a women finding the perfect man, to which could not have been more wrong.  I enjoyed how I could visualize every word and make this story into a movie in my mind.  Also, that is the part that made me cry, because I was picturing everything in my mind.  The essay Words explained everything well.  I was attached to the grandmother, because when I see grandmother; I think of my own.  Also in this story were delightful children, carefree and living the way kids should.  My first thought when they got into a wreck was, oh my goodness Grandma is going to die and her son was secretly taking her to Tennessee like she desired.  Once those men came along, I thought; here is where they meet A Good Man!  WRONG.  So it turned out to be the misfit, and so in my dreamland I pictured him turning into a hero and that would let us realize that good men are hard to find because we are looking in the wrong places! WRONG.  He was a dirty, criminalized murderer!  He sounded mentally insane.  While Grandmother was talking to him about Jesus and God, I got more attached because my grandma is very religious.  When her son was shot; she yelled " Baily Boy " and that broke my heart.  That would be terrible to have to be there when your children die, that is not how it's suppose to be!  At this point, I was so angry!  I wanted the children to run away and get help and save the day. WRONG.  Then they took the mother and children. All I could think about was the little baby, dying.  And through it all the grandmother, so stuck in her old fashioned days of gentlemen and Jesus, kept talking and trying to give this man good advice.  All she got in return was a ticket to Heaven.  I didn't quite understand the last lines about  " she would have been a good women, if it had been someone to shoot her every minute of her life"   Then he says " its no real pleasure in life"  like he doesn't get pleasure from killing people? He gets something out of it! He just killed a whole family.  Such an awfully sad story.