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The Grandmother In A Good Man Is Hard To Find

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After begging the Misfit to spare her life and calling him a good man, the grandmother in “A Good Man is Hard to Find” reaches a moment of grace and genuinely reaches out to the Misfit, redeeming herself in the act after being shallow her whole life. Caught off guard, the fugitive shoots the old woman three times in the chest. Although he first mentions killing is a pleasure in life, he laments her death, telling his companions “She would of been a good woman,’ The Misfit said, ‘if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life” (O’Connor 442). Throughout the story, the grandmother has proven herself to be selfish and willing to lie in order to fulfill her wishes. She sees herself as a good Christian lady and dresses the part,

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