When the family stops
at Red Sammys BBQ place for lunch, Red Sammy and the grandmother talk over their shared values
and disdain for contemporary attitudes and mores. Despite the fact that Red Sammy does not seem
like a good manhe speaks harshly to his wife (and he does so in front of strangers), he keeps
a monkey tied to a tree, and he is dirty and unkempthe has lots of ideas about what makes a good
man and what does not. He says to the grandmother, These days you dont know who to trust, and
the grandmother replies, People are certainly not nice like they used to be. These would seem
to foreshadow what happens later with the Misfit and his cronies. One would hope that anyone
stopping by a car thats been in a wreck is doing so to offer help, but this is not the case; the
family cannot trust the men who stop, and those men are certainly not good.
In the car, as they are driving, the grandmother asks to stop at a house she once knew, and she
entices the...
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