Essay On A Good Man Is Hard To Find

When it becomes clear that a person’s time of death has arisen, sometimes people will say words that they believe will prolong their lives either physically or spiritually. At times of death, people pray for their souls to be taken in god’s care and also they pray for their bodies to survive just a little bit longer. In “A Good Man is Hard to Find”, the grandmother, at her time of death, compliments her soon-to-be murderer and tells him that he needs to pray. The Grandmother saying this to the Misfit is to silently convince herself that she is a “good person” as well and her telling him to pray is her way of justifying to Jesus that she has proven herself as a faithful servant of her religion.
When death comes knocking at her door she pleads with her murderer to prolong her life. She keeps trying to convince the Misfit that he is a good person and that he would not hurt a lady. She keeps repeating to the Misfit that she believes he is a good man. …show more content…
The grandmother does this during the time with the Misfit but not exactly in the way that is considered normal. She asks the Misfit if he prays and pesters him multiple times that he should pray. This is similar to the same situation with her complimenting the Misfit in which she is trying to convince herself that she in fact is religious and connected to god. Earlier in the story the grandmother never mentions anything about her religion. Shortly before her death that is when she finally brings up the topic of praying and Jesus Christ. She pleads him to pray and it seems as if her way of asking him to pray is her way of she showing her dedication to her own religion. When pleading him to pray, this is her own version of prayer to her god. She is using the Misfit as her vessel of dedication to her religion and she believes that if she can convert the Misfit, that God would forgive her for her