Flannery O’Conner’s characters are perfect examples of what someone essentially is when they are forced into a situation that they weren’t prepared for. In the story A Good Man Is Hard to Find, a grandmother is awakened by her experience with someone called The Misfit. In this story the grandmother continues to talk to people about the way things used to be. She states, “Children were more respectful of their native states and their parents and everything else. People did right then” (Conner 424). This is the point in the story where you begin to realize that the grandmother believes that things used to be better. She believes that things should continue to be as they once were. At the end of the story, the grandmother has a “moment of grace” when she finally meets The Misfit. She says to The Misfit, “You’ve got
Flannery O’Conner’s characters are perfect examples of what someone essentially is when they are forced into a situation that they weren’t prepared for. In the story A Good Man Is Hard to Find, a grandmother is awakened by her experience with someone called The Misfit. In this story the grandmother continues to talk to people about the way things used to be. She states, “Children were more respectful of their native states and their parents and everything else. People did right then” (Conner 424). This is the point in the story where you begin to realize that the grandmother believes that things used to be better. She believes that things should continue to be as they once were. At the end of the story, the grandmother has a “moment of grace” when she finally meets The Misfit. She says to The Misfit, “You’ve got