“A Good Man Is Hard to Find” is a short story indited by Mary Flannery O’Connor in 1953. It is one of the most famous examples of Southern Gothic literature. Southern Gothic inditing fixates on outlandish events, eccentric characters, and local color to engender a moody and unsettling depiction of life in the American South. Flannery O’Connor illustrates the theme of grace in “A Good Man is Hard to Find.” In “A Good Man Is Hard to Find,” the grandmother and the Misfit are both recipients of grace, despite their many imperfections, sins, and impuissances. According to Christian religious studies, human beings are granted salvation through God’s grace, or favor, which God liberatingly bestows on even the least likely receivers. In other words, God has the puissance to sanction even lamentable people to peregrinate to heaven, which he does by granting them grace and favor. The grandmother is an unlikely candidate for …show more content…
The grandmother, moved by the Misfit’s wish to ken for sure what Jesus did and didn’t do, experiences a moment of grace when her head momentarily clears and she exclaims, “Why you’re one of my babies. You’re one of my own children!” The Misfit isn’t literally the grandmother’s child; rather, this points to the fact that she realizes they are both human beings. Her comment seems infelicitous, even non compos mentis, given the circumstances, but this is authentically the grandmother’s most coherent moment in the story. She has pellucidity and compassion. God has granted her grace just afore she dies. The Misfit, additionally, is open to grace at this moment. Albeit he had claimed earlier that there was “no pleasure but meanness” in life, he now gainsays that there is any congeniality in life at all. Killing has ceased to bring him jubilance, suggesting that he, additionally, may harbor the possibility to