Good story, seems as if the mother of Bailey referred to as the grandmother is basically the main character. I was so surprised that the Misfit killed the whole family, shocked!!!
i found it odd that the grandmother was very calm through all of this and was trying to tell the misfit to pray, even after he said no several times. Maybe she was trying to use her faith in God to help her. It was pretty obvious that she was most likely next to be killed.
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Yes--probe more deeply; let the blogs be a way of mining insights... 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...
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