A significant idea that I came across in “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” is the theme of morality and redemption.The grandmother presents herself as a morally upright Christian but instead demonstrates selfishness and manipulation throughout the story. Without reading the article I would’ve thought that it was going to be centered around a man in the story but in reality the grandmother in the story lacked morals more than the Misfit, she just likes to portray herself in a certain way, very ladylike and elegant but she lacked a lot of care even for her own family, the misfit says at the end of the story ” she would have been a good lady if there was somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life”, this shows how the misfit viewed the grandmother as a deceitful person who was just crying for mercy and saying the nicest things while a gun was pointed to her.
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I agree with you. When the Misfit was first mentioned in the story I thought he was going to be the main character and the only bad one and the goodness was going to be the family. But. I thought wrong. Reading that her grandma can easily manipulate her family shows the type of person she is. She also used the manipulation and religious strategy to keep herself from getting killed. All along the goodness was found in the misfit and not the family.