Grandma, the unnamed but central character in Flannery'O'Connor's “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” is introduced as she prepares for a trip to Florida with his family. During the preparations he smuggles in his cat, Pitty Sing, to join them on the journey despite his son Bailey's wishes. Grandma also briefly highlights the recent escape of the famous outlaw who calls himself The Misfit, who she expresses concern about meeting on the street. During their journey they stop briefly at a restaurant known as The Tower, where she forms a brief kinship with the owner, Red Sam. In short, they commiserate over their mutual agreement that the world has degraded morally from times past. Continuing the journey after leaving the restaurant, the grandmother suggests stopping at a nearby plantation from her childhood. Grandma tells a childhood rumor that the house contains a secret panel filled with silver. To Bailey's dismay and Grandma's delight, the children ask to stop there. After a long search of her grandmother's house, to which she pleads profusely, she insists that the Misfit is an aristocratic Southern man of good blood who would never harm a woman. The Misfit rejects the title of good man, but agrees that he is not the worst of men and begins to treat the grandmother with a staccato kindness. As his family is taken away, one by one, to be massacred, his increasingly desperate calls for civility take on a religious tone. The Misfit harbors pious feelings, but views avenging one's sins as either important or impossible. Unable to act on faith, he tells her that if only he could be sure of salvation, he would not be what he was now. This tormented explanation touches the grandmother, who addresses him as if he were her son. The Misfit recoils in horror and kills her without hesitation, and the grandmother dies