What Is The Shift In The Misfit's Salvation

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or burning down his house or doing some other meanness to him,No pleasure but meanness”(449). This quote reveals that it seems like the Misfit commits multiple crimes because this is the only obvious pleasure throughout his life. Then this takes me back to my earlier talking of him believing if he killed his parents. Maybe the reason why he said those things is because he believes that the idea of killing is normal, and he doesn't deserve to be punished for murdering or burning. The shift in The Misfits actions but continuously complexity towards his past at the end of the short story, which lead to the killing of the grandmother at the end, leaves no room for hope of The Misfit’s salvation.The wisdom that he gets at the end of this story

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