Short Story A Good Man Is Hard To Find

The South in the 1960s was a very difficult time period. It was the Southern Gothic. Flannery called this “the action of grace in the territory held largely by the devil” (357). “A Good Man is Hard to Find” is the perfect example of this hypocritical period. White people saw themselves superior to everyone else, but were still kind of other races. The South’s status was very troubled in which the races, social class, and the religion were discriminated very often. The grandmother in the short story is a misfit herself, seeing herself superior to others, but relies on religion when she is in a difficult situation. The grandmother, who is unnamed in the story, is a very judgmental and selfish woman. She likes to consider herself as superior to the others and like a “lady.” Her moral sense is what guides her in life, like when she tells her son, Bailey, that her conscience does not let her take the children
The grandmother’s moral sense disappears when she is in a difficult situation. The Misfit has a consistent view of life and he is acting the way he thinks is right. His beliefs aren’t moral, but are strong and stable, and the grandmother lacks this too. The Misfit can only depend on his conscience to guide him, but the grandmother does not. She acknowledges her strengths and weaknesses at the end of the story. If he had involved his moral sense to a less corrupt life, he could have been a whole different person. O’Connor used her story to bring people to Christianity. The grandmother was a misfit, and her actions were not very Christian-like. The grandmother was very judgmental, hypocritical, selfish, stubborn, and self-centered. The Misfit was a “misfit” because he was a murderer, which is very sinful. They are both misfits, but in different ways. They are both equally sinful. When the grandmother is about to come to an end, she sees her mistakes and starts to pray and become very