A Good Man is Hard To Find by : Flannery O’Connor

“The old lady settled herself comfortably, removing her white cotton gloves and putting them up with her purse on the shelf in front of the back window. The children’s mother still had on slacks and still had her head tied up in a green kerchief, but the grandmother had on a navy blue straw sailor hat with a bunch of white violets on the brim and a navy blue dress with a small white dot in the print. Her collars and cuffs were white organdy trimmed with lace and at her neckline she had pinned a purple spray of cloth violets containing a satchet. In case of an accident, anyone seeing her dead on the highway would know at once that she was a lady.”

Task: Is the dictation abstract or concrete? How does O’connor’s dictation characterize the old lady?