Every person has both the capacity for good, and evil. In the religious context of The Onion, redemption is always attainable, even if someone has only ever done a single good deed. Redemption in the story comes from what is in a person's heart and soul. If a person was bad in life, but in death displayed that they were capable of being good, if they could repent through a final good deed--then they were redeemed. The women in The Onion was described as being wicked. Only ever doing one good thing by giving an onion to a poor woman. That one particular instance of selflessness was enough to convince God to give the wicked woman a chance at redemption. If the women, in death, could show that her soul was good-natured despite her mean-streak