Anticipation and surprise can make any story impressive, frustrating, or mind numbing. In A Good Man is Hard to Find readers tend to have a ray of hope for the characters to stay alive. The viewer is constantly awaiting the end wondering if they will make it out alive. However if the onlooker was to pick up the hints of foreshadowing that are implicated all throughout the fictional story then that anticipation could be prevented. Flannery O'Connor drops minuscule hints throughout her story to let the reader know what is to come of each character.
             When it comes to the structure of a story the author is careful when they place hints of foreshadowing within the text. An author wants the hint to be concealed within the passage so that way the ending is still a surprise. Within A Good Man is Hard to Find O'Connor places hints all through out the work to warn the reader of the death and destruction that is to come to the characters. O'Connor begins the story talking of a serial killer and how the grandmother does not wish to go on vacation where the killer is supposedly heading. Within the first paragraph of the story the viewer is warned of a serial killer that is on the lose, and the viewer could predict that they were going to run into him. However O'Connor does not immediately give away any hint of death, this is so that when the reader comes across a hint of foreshadowing he or she can disregard it. As the story progresses the indication of foreshadowing gets slightly more and more visible. The very next implication of foreshadowing is how the grandmother indicates that she is dressing nicely because if any one were to find her dead on the road they would know she was a lady. This statement is hinting to the reader that someone could possibly die. As the plot begins to develop stronger clues are dropped such as, they pass 5 or 6 graves and there happens to be 6 people in the car, the town that the family stops in is c...