The grandmother does not need to see the good to believe that it is there so she believes that everyone is capable of it. Unlike the grandma, The Misfit believes that if good is not shown or given to him, achieving a wicked thing is fine and morally okay. As a result of these different perspectives from growing up so differently, the characters develop very different morals. ‘O Conner’s intent with this idea is that morals are not necessarily viewed the same way and can explain why people do things that are considered “wrong”. In this time period certain things were considered a social norm when really it was not; things that dealt with race, and gender are examples of this. The author’s intent was to explain why people thought it was okay to use discrimination and that because they were raised that way the people could not see that what they were doing is wrong. At the end of the short story when The Misfit says “It’s no real pleasure in life” (11) that is when we see the shift of morals that was happening in that time period as well; when people were starting to stand up for what they believed
The grandmother does not need to see the good to believe that it is there so she believes that everyone is capable of it. Unlike the grandma, The Misfit believes that if good is not shown or given to him, achieving a wicked thing is fine and morally okay. As a result of these different perspectives from growing up so differently, the characters develop very different morals. ‘O Conner’s intent with this idea is that morals are not necessarily viewed the same way and can explain why people do things that are considered “wrong”. In this time period certain things were considered a social norm when really it was not; things that dealt with race, and gender are examples of this. The author’s intent was to explain why people thought it was okay to use discrimination and that because they were raised that way the people could not see that what they were doing is wrong. At the end of the short story when The Misfit says “It’s no real pleasure in life” (11) that is when we see the shift of morals that was happening in that time period as well; when people were starting to stand up for what they believed