Answer:
to foreshadow the family's encounter with The Misfit
Explanation:
O'Connor chooses to have the family stop at the filling station and meet Red Sammy D. to foreshadow the family's encounter with The Misfit
. This event is taken from a short story titled "A Good Man is Hard to Find" written by Flannery O'Connor in 1953. This short story focus on each of the character's behavior through the story
The mention of the sun rising in the unripe season tells of spring. The last stanza describes the narrator chasing the deer until noon. This then tells that it was morning when he spotted the deer under a laurel tree.
