In Flannery O 'Connor's A Good Man Is Hard To Find'

In Flannery O'Connor’s “A Good Man is Hard to Find” neither The Misfit, nor the Grandmother seem to feel sympathetic. The Misfit goes around and kills innocent people for what seems like no reason while the grandmother causes the death of her entire family and seems to feel no remorse until her life is on the line. The grandmother spends a lot of the story trying to appeal to The Misfits sympathies so when he shoots her “three times through the chest” (O’Connor) this proves that he does not have sympathy. The grandmother indirectly caused the death of Bailey, the children’s mother, June Star, the baby, and John Wesley. After each death all she did was continue to talk to The Misfit, not show any remorse or sympathy for what she had caused.