A Good Man Is Hard To Find By Flannery O Connor

In the story, “A Good Man is Hard to Find” by ‎Flannery O'Connor, the Grandmother in the story is known as the protagonist. Although this is the case, throughout the story the audience learns that she is actually a born sinner just like the Misfit. Even though the Misfit’s actions are worse than that of the Grandmother’s actions, they both commit sins of more or less value to that of one another. One of the biggest mistakes the Grandmother makes in this story is to choose treat God as somebody she can accept or ignore depending upon the situation that she is put in. Although the Grandmother is a naturally born sinner, she is saved by grace towards the end of the story. Throughout “A Good Man is Hard to Find”, the Grandmother plays the role

This causes the readers to realize she has had a “moment of grace” in her life. She says to him, “Why you’re one of my babies. You’re one of my own children” (O’ Conner 413). The Grandmother has a moment in which she sees the Misfit as a regular human being who is only a bad person because he has gone through a lot of pain and suffering. As soon as the Grandmother touches the Misfit he is shocked by her actions and her words to the point to where he shoots her three times in the chest. Although the Grandmother is dead, she died with a smile on her face because she has been able to have a moment of redemption in her life right before she dies. Later the Misfit says, “She would have been a good woman. If it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life” (O’ Conner 413). When he says this, it is clear to see that he plays the part of a “sinner being saved by grace”. He recognizes the Grandmother’s act to be good. When Bobby claims the killing of the Grandmother to be fun, the Misfit says “It’s no real pleasure in life” (O’ Conner 413). When he says this he means he did not enjoy what he just did. This proves to show that grace has entered his heart, even if it only was a little bit of