A Good Man Is Hard to Find | Setting
The story is firmly set in the rural American South. The characters, particularly the grandmother, are imbued with classic Southern characteristics, and they display an intimate understanding of the landscape of which they are a part. As the family drives south from Georgia to Florida, the grandmother points out all along the way various things about the southern landscape—the kudzu, the plantations that are no more. The most important point about the setting is that it is representative of the decay of the Old South; the fact that the children have disdain for the state of Georgia, as...
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