The Author Flannery O\u2019Connor, in \u201cA Good Man is Hard to Find\u201d demonstrates the transformative power of human compassion and grace. Transformations of the two-character stereotypes, which the grandmother and the Misfit embody, are used to get across the story\u2019s message. By allowing the stereotypes to evolve into round characters with the potential to change, the author demonstrates that anyone can change through the presence of grace. The grandmother represents the stereotypical southern, Christian, domineering mother who is often hypocritical and two-faced. She is flawed and annoying from the start, and more than anyone else is responsible for the family\u2019s terrible problem. While she considers herself a \u201clady\u201d and morally superior to others, she freely and frequently passes judgment on others without inspecting her own hypocrisy, selfishness, and dishonesty. She also takes any opportunity to judge the lack of goodness in people. The Misfit is described as the stereotypical criminal and more specifically, an ignorant, someone who has gone wrong in life. It is hard to empathize with him, especially after he kills the grandmother\u2019s family in such a casual manner. The Misfit carries on a philosophical conversation with the grandmother, explaining that he doesn\u2019t view actions as right or wrong and that if he does something that others consider wrong, he gets punished.<\/p>\n
Both characters, by the time of their final face, feel profound changes. Only when the grandmother faces death does she realize where she has gone wrong in life. Instead of acting superior like she has throughout the story, she recognizes that she is flawed like everyone else. She sees that both she and the Misfit are the same at their core they are sinners in need of grace. By seeing the murderer as \u201cone of my own children!\u201d, the grandmother offers him unconditional love and acceptance that transcends what he deserves.<\/p>\n
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