From the beginning the O’Conner uses characterization to present good and evil with the Grandmother with the way she uses her religion. When the family meets Red Sammy Butts the grandmother is sitting having a conversation about the old times compared to the new times and the grandmother says "It isn 't a soul in this green world of God 's that you can trust" (409). This is hypocritical of her faith. Leading us to believe that she doesn’t trust you unless you show her different. Then later on in the story she begs for her life, never once begging for her grandchildren or even her own son’s life to be saved. In multiple parts of the story she pleads “You wouldn’t shoot a lady, would you” (413-17). With the Grandmother just pleading for her own
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With the grandmother it took her all the way to find compassion for people that had an evil spirit. Her last words being “she saw the man’s face twisted close to her own as if he were going to cry and she murmured, “Why you’re one of my babies. You’re one of my own children” (417). It took her to the moment when she was about to lose her life to finally understand that everyone is worth of receiving compassion and grace from God no matter what evils they had done. Also in that moment she finally sees the Misfit for more than just this evil man that out killing people but as one of Gods beautiful children. Then on the other hand the Misfit sees something completely different when it came to the Grandmother. In the final lines of the story the Misfit says to one of the guys "She would of been a good woman," The Misfit said, "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life" (418). The Misfit saw through the Grandmothers all good and no bad façade. But in those moments he saw that she was only good when it benefited her and that some of her actions in her live leading up to that moment may not have been always good. His last words even to lead us to believe that killing the grandmother may even have affected him. Although they present good and evil in different ways for themselves we saw a change in them both by the end of the
With the grandmother it took her all the way to find compassion for people that had an evil spirit. Her last words being “she saw the man’s face twisted close to her own as if he were going to cry and she murmured, “Why you’re one of my babies. You’re one of my own children” (417). It took her to the moment when she was about to lose her life to finally understand that everyone is worth of receiving compassion and grace from God no matter what evils they had done. Also in that moment she finally sees the Misfit for more than just this evil man that out killing people but as one of Gods beautiful children. Then on the other hand the Misfit sees something completely different when it came to the Grandmother. In the final lines of the story the Misfit says to one of the guys "She would of been a good woman," The Misfit said, "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life" (418). The Misfit saw through the Grandmothers all good and no bad façade. But in those moments he saw that she was only good when it benefited her and that some of her actions in her live leading up to that moment may not have been always good. His last words even to lead us to believe that killing the grandmother may even have affected him. Although they present good and evil in different ways for themselves we saw a change in them both by the end of the