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In the story A Good Man Is Hard To Find, the grandmother is shown to be a very self-centered person who thinks that the world revolves around her. The author makes this fact known right away. The grandmother "...didn't want to go to Florida... and she was seizing ....

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.... of that guilt, get him to change his mind. Bailey"s reactions toward his mother reinforce the fact that she is domineering, even to the point of being intimidating, In the beginning of the story, Bailey is shown to be nervous, as "He was sitting on the edge of his chair at the table..." (354) while his mother is trying to talk him into changing his mind about where they go for their vacation. He is also very passive around his mother, and it shows be the way he offers no resistance or objections to what she is demanding. When Bailey looks "straight ahead... His jaw was as rigid as a horseshoe" (358), he was obviously upset about the way the grandmothe ....