Good Man Is Hard To Find
Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man Is hard to Find” reflects on a grandmother in a destructive society who is saved by the two of the most obscure moments in her life, her meeting with The Misfit and death. ... The reality of death and the man who brings death upon her help her reach stability with her Christianity. ... It appears throughout the beginning of the story that she is just an old innocuous woman who pronounces herself as a “good person” (Bandy 2). ... Before her meeting with the Misfit the grandmother is sure of that a “good” person really is. In her meeting with Red Sammy, she tells him that he is a good man. But the grandmother seems to say this to many of the not so good men she encounter in her life such as, her son, who is nothing but rude to her and the Misfit. “The Misfit himself comes closest to earning the description [of a good man]. ... The Misfit goes on to say that the grandmother would have been a good woman if there was someone to shoot her every minute of her life (O’Connor, “Complete” 113) If the grandmother has known that she would die, she would have had the epiphany she had with the Misfit a while longer.