Flannery O’Connor explores religious concepts throughout her stories “A Good Man is hard to Find”, “A Temple of The Holy Ghost”, and “The Life You Save may be Your Own”. A common theme within these works includes the ideas of both physical and religious deformities. In “A Good Man is Hard to Find” The grandmother, a very put together and proper women physically portrays beauty, but lacks morals and spiritual guidance. After the car accident the family had, somewhat because of the grandma, a group of men in a car stop at the scene. In the interest of her own pride the grandmother exposes the Misfits by identifying the men, losing all regard for the safety of her family. Later in efforts to save herself she begins to tell the Misfit he
