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The Misfit: A Good Man Is Hard To Find

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Jason Spears
Dr. Dale Salwak
English 101
5 June 2016
The Misfit: “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” Born March 25, 1925 in Savannah, Georgia was Flannery O’Connor. Growing up she faced some hardships by losing her father at an early age to lupus erythematosus. She wrote many novels, but was well known for her short story collections. In 1964 she died of lupus after battling it for more than 10 years (Biography.com). One of her best short stories was called A Good Man Is Hard to Find. The story is about a family getting ready to go on vacation in Florida, but the grandmother tries to get them to go to Tennessee instead, due to a criminal on the loose heading that way. Later in the story the grandmother’s cat escapes, causing the …show more content…

You have to think something isn’t alright in The Misfits head. That statement also makes you think that this guy can snap at any moment and towards the end of the story when the grandmother says to The Misfit, “why you’re one of my babies. You’re one of my own children!” (O’Connor pg.715), the guy just snapped and shot her. So maybe he doesn’t fit well with emotions. In the dictionary it describes a misfit as: a person who is not suited or is unable to adjust to the circumstances of his or her particular situation (dictionary.com). With The Misfit being an escaped convict, it can be quite understanding why he would feel unable to adjust to life on the outside of jail walls. From viewing television shows about how one must survive in jail and then trying to survive in the normal world, it seems that it could be quite difficult at first. Shmoop describes how during one part of the story, the misfit talks about how he went to the penitentiary for a crime he didn’t believe he had committed (Shmoop). With this information being revealed, it makes you think if The Misfit was looney, but then he also describes how he wasn’t always a bad …show more content…

It’s quite simple. There are many factors to this such as family, upbringing, culture and etc. According to Moral Code, “When people are educated, they are able to distinguish between right and wrong. They abide by their moral codes which are behaviors and beliefs that they think most fit them” (Moral Code). A good man is honest, has compassion and The Misfit has none of these. He feeds on doing evil and think it is right. He rejects Jesus and states that Jesus was wrong to ever raised the dead and because of that he threw everything off balance. The misfit has not thrown everything away “to follow Christ,” but instead he is “enjoying the few minutes” he has left by killing and robbing

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