Diamond

Flannery O’Connor illustrates the difference between good and evil in her short story “A Good Man is Hard to Find.” To poytray the lesson of the story, the grandma and the Misfit experience metamorphosis that represent the two character characteristics.The author shows that everyone can change when compassion is present by letting the stereotypes grow into  characters with the capacity to change.The grandma is a representation of the stereotypically hypocritical, Christian, Southern, and controlling mother. She is the main cause of the family’s terrible situation and is faulty and irritating from the beginning. Even though she views herself as a “lady,”She chooses not to disclose that she was mistaken about the location of the house with the secret panel when the family is involved in an accident. Furthermore, the grandmother never once asks the Misfit to spare her family from his  slaughter; instead, she begs for her own life when she realizes that her turn is approaching.The Misfit is represented as the stereotypical criminal that is violent, uneducated hick someone who has made mistakes in life. It is difficult to feel sympathy for him, particularly when he murders the grandmother’s family with such ease and abandonment—as if he is accustomed to killing. In a logical discussion, The Misfit tells the grandma that he doesn’t think there is such a thing as right or wrong in deeds and that if he does anything that other people think is bad, he will be punished. He admits that pleading with Jesus may save him, but he maintains that he is not in need of that type of assistance. The Misfit generally has an indifferent attitude regarding morals.Throughout the novel, the grandmother and the Misfit are both presented as clichés; However, their final meeting transforms them. Even the most wicked and rebellious character, the Misfit, may be […]