O'Connor uses images of the grotesque throughout the story "A Good Man Is Hard To Find." Give three of these.

You are right in identifying O'Connor's emphasis and focus
on the grotesque in this excellent story. There are certainly plenty of moments you
could focus on, but you also might like to think about the way in which grotesque images
are actually made to be rather humorous in some places as well. One excellent example
comes in the second paragraph, when we meet Bailey's wife. Note how she is
described:

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...a young woman in slacks, whose face was as
broad and innocent as a cabbage and was tied around with a green headkerchief that had
two points on the top like rabbit's
ears.

There is something
immensely amusing about this description of Bailey's wife's face as a "cabbage" and the
way that she resembles a rabbit.

There is something
grotesque in the way that the children's excitment about being in an accident is
juxtaposed with the damage done:

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She was sitting against the side of the red
gutted ditch, holding the screaming baby, but she only had a cut down her face and a
broken shoulder. "We've had an ACCIDENT!" the children screamed in a frenzy of
delight.

And then lastly, you
might like to think about the final image we have of the grandmother, dead on the floor,
after she has been shot:

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Hiram and Bobby Lee returned from the woods and
stood over the ditch, looking down at the grandmother who half sat and half lay in a
puddle of blood with her legs crossed under her like a child's and her face smiling up
at the cloudless sky.

There
is something in the way that the smile of the grandmother and her the way that she is
lying in a "puddle of blood" makes this image perhaps the most grotesque in the
story.