MISFITS

woman’s last attempt at life initially seems valiant, but the 1955 tale brings to light the error in her entire belief system and the proper foundation The Misfit has built his steadfastly on (SparkNotes). The tale brings to light a remorseless view of the world from two different eyes, a hypocritical grandmother and a…

A Good Man is Hard to Find Flannery O’Connor’s short story, A Good Man is Hard to Find, describes characters as misfits even if they all do not know it. From supporting to main characters, moral decay is expressed throughout the story by the characters themselves. The theme of moral decay is most clearly displayed by various degrees through Red Sammy, the Grandmother, and the Misfit. Red Sammy is a character who exhibits the theme of moral decay in this short story. Red Sammy is a plump and…

at the end of the story when the family encountered the Misfit. The Misfit, a recently escaped prisoner charged with murder, found the family after a car crash and slowly sentenced them to death. The Misfit challenged the grandmothers' spiritual beliefs and ultimately changed her view on what it meant to be a "good" person moments before her murder.…

into the hands of a tortured murderer, The Misfit. The grandmother’s behavior and actions highlights an interesting dilemma on what it means to be good in addition to putting into perspective the value of goodness when it 's merely…

criticizes herself. Also when the Misfit begins to shoot the family, never once does the Grandmother plead to save her family, she only pleads…

Bailey into crashing the car. They run into the Misfit, who The Grandmother foolishly says she recognizes. The Misfit informs her that she should not have said this and he and his group lead the family into the woods to kill them. Before The Grandmother is killed, though, she has a conversation with the Misfit about religion, and she seems to really only be genuine with wanting him to have salvation in order to save herself. Right before the Misfit shoots her three times, she touches his…

include the "big bad wolf" as a main character. Flannery O'Connor, like a lot of writers, used this same archetypal "big bad wolf" in A Good Man is Hard to Find. In O'Connor's short story she uses The Misfit, an escaped convict who is heading towards Florida with two henchmen. O'Connor describes The Misfit by saying he is an escaped convict, has rather simple accomplices, and has…

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…

Flannery O'Connor's “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” is a short story told in the third person. In the short story, a group of escaped convicts, led by a notorious leader called the Misfit murder a family because of a series of mishaps on the part of the Grandmother. The story centers singularly on the Grandmother; she is the character we were told most about. The Grandmother complains that she would rather go to Tennessee than Florida for vacation and she insists that her son, Bailey, take a…

not easy to say who is more evil, the Misfit or the Grandmother, and indeed that is the point. Her behavior is the manifest of her character” (Bandy, 1193). The Grandmother seems more evil than the Misfit because of the transition of her character throughout the story. Her devious plan of imitating a caring mother could have caught readers off guard. The Grandmother’s plan may have sounded like a bright idea in the beginning but as the scene went on, the Misfit saw right through her intentional…