In Flannery O’Connor’s short story “A Good Man is hard to find” one of the center characters O’Connor does not give him a real name like the others, she just calls him The Misfit. The Misfit is a very odd person though, he is a horrible sinner, but then he is very thoughtful. For instance, he is thoughtful when he tells the ladies "I'm sorry I don't have on a shirt before you ladies” (O’Connor 7). Then he is a horrible sinner because at the end of the story he is the one that shoots the grandmother multiple times in the chest for trying to help him to pray. The Misfit believes that there is no point in life, so that is why he does the things he does. No one really understands why though. How does the Misfit justify his action? Is he okay with
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This is to be violent. He sticks to it because he believes that the punishment will never fit the crime. Then during the punishment he will forget what the crime was and just be doing punishment for noting. He explains how it feels being in jail by saying "Turn to the right, it was a wall. Turn to the left, it was a wall. Look up it was a ceiling, look down it was a floor. I forget what I done, lady. I set there and set there, trying to remember what it was I done and I ain't recalled it to this day. Oncet in a while, I would think it was coming to me, but it never come” (O’Connor 8). So really it was like he is doing the punishment for no reason. He also questions religion instead of just believing like the grandmother does because he thinks that there is no point in religion. Which is crazy because he once was a religious person. He says "I was a gospel singer for a while,I been most everything. Been in the arm service both land and sea, at home and abroad, been twict married, been an undertaker, been with the railroads, plowed Mother Earth, been in a tornado, seen a man burnt alive oncet” (O’Connor 8). Then he says “I never was a bad boy that I remember of, but somewheres along the line I done something wrong and got sent to the penitentiary. I was buried alive,” (O’Connor
This is to be violent. He sticks to it because he believes that the punishment will never fit the crime. Then during the punishment he will forget what the crime was and just be doing punishment for noting. He explains how it feels being in jail by saying "Turn to the right, it was a wall. Turn to the left, it was a wall. Look up it was a ceiling, look down it was a floor. I forget what I done, lady. I set there and set there, trying to remember what it was I done and I ain't recalled it to this day. Oncet in a while, I would think it was coming to me, but it never come” (O’Connor 8). So really it was like he is doing the punishment for no reason. He also questions religion instead of just believing like the grandmother does because he thinks that there is no point in religion. Which is crazy because he once was a religious person. He says "I was a gospel singer for a while,I been most everything. Been in the arm service both land and sea, at home and abroad, been twict married, been an undertaker, been with the railroads, plowed Mother Earth, been in a tornado, seen a man burnt alive oncet” (O’Connor 8). Then he says “I never was a bad boy that I remember of, but somewheres along the line I done something wrong and got sent to the penitentiary. I was buried alive,” (O’Connor