Part Two Summary

"A Good Man is Hard to Find" is a story of a Georgia family preparing for a Florida vacation. The grandmother does not want to go to Florida and would rather visit eastern Tennessee where she has "connections." The grandmother loses the fight and the family leaves for Florida.

The family consists of the grandmother, her son, daughter-in-law, and three children, including an infant. The children are argumentative and disrespectful, something the grandmother cannot tolerate. The children tend to fight in the back seat of the car and the grandmother makes attempts to entertain the children by pointing out landmarks and telling interesting stories. The grandmother remembers a house from many years ago that she desperately longs to see. The son will not stop until the grandmother tells the children about an imaginary secret panel in the house. The children are...