Through the violence of her short story, Flannery O’ Conner depicts grace and salvation. Flannery O’Conner was a southern rooted writer deeply connected to her Roman Catholic faith and with the use of spiritually conflicted characters she depicted human mortality and the flaws of humanity in her short story, “A Good Man Is Hard To Find.” In this story, O’Connor shares her views of mankind as creatures who have fallen from God’s grace and their journey to rediscover it. The characters in the story face an abrupt dissent into violence. The story is by design meant to shock the reader out of spiritual displacement leaving them to debate the classic Christian mysteries; good versus evil and God’s Grace. The beginning of the story gives the reader a view of the family as disconnected and unappealing. Each member does not respect one another providing the reader with a sense of dissension. This is O’Connor’s attempt to illustrate the dissension of the family and how far from God’s grace they have strayed. The characters will later face their own frugality and become aware that life is finite. Prunty states, “The people who populate O'Connor's "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" are flat yet exaggerated individuals facing their own meanness and mortality.” The immediate focus of the story turns to the grandmother who …show more content…
(McDermott) O’Connor reveals that the Misfit has had a hard life and has never truly fit in. His father was a hard man and new he was different. He bounced from job to job but nothing never settled for one until he was sent to prison. He could not remember what it was for. In the penitentiary, the Misfit was visited by a “head doctor” who said he killed his father. He objected to this notion. Although he his grotesque character the reader can sympathize with