How do you think the setting helps the story? Use evidence from the text to back up this discussion.

[The setting in the short story, "A Good Man is Hard to Find," was very important to the story because it helped isolate the characters.] In the short story the characters were traveling through Georgia on their way to Florida, when the family gets in a car crash on a gravel road off of the main road. The mother stated after the crash, "Maybe a car will come along," because this was not a well traveled road and the family was in immediate need of help. When somebody came along to "help" them it seemed as if the family was going to be okay. Having the story be set in such a secluded area the reader was kept focus on the area immediately surrounding the family. The reader would not be focused on anything going on outside of the families interactions with "The Misfit." Once The Misfit killed the grandmother the setting also gave the reader a sense of helplessness for the family because they had a broken down car in the middle of nowhere. If the story had been set in a less secluded place then the story would have gone very differently because they would have been able to get help from somebody else or have had easier access to help when The Misfit began to shoot.