In Flannery O'Connor's short story, "A Good Man is Hard to Find", the grandmother is a very negative character whose personality leads to her death . The Grandmother, who is the most dynamic character in the entire story, represents the mentality of senile and pessimistic people. She is described as hypocritical, superficial and self-centered because she does not take other people's feelings into consideration. Grandma's ideas, self-consciousness, and selfishness about the "old South" ultimately lead to her death. Grandma demonstrates her "Old South" perception of the world throughout the story. He makes a lot of racist and stereotypical remarks. First, he makes a statement about a black child standing in the doorway of a shack they pass, "Oh look at this cute little pickaninny!" (225.) This situation develops after June Star noticed that the child had no "britch" and the grandmother replied, "He probably didn't have any. Little niggers in the country don't have things like us. If I could paint, I'd paint that picture ." (225.) In addition to the obvious use of...