In “A Good Man is Hard to Find” the author uses an egocentric character of the grandmother; the grandmother’s superficiality is somehow true for most of us who profess to be Christians. She’s paying lip service to the superficial notion of being Christians, however not treating it as seriously as the Misfit does. In addition, the grandmother’s hypocrisy, self-entitlement, and futility made that clear by a touch comparable to a bit of hard luck, also she never had a clue about life and things she pretended to care about the most. The age dynamic and social and cultural gap is perfectly investigated during the whole family’s ordeal. And the family was unequipped in every aspect to deal with the darkness of life outside their illusory place of comfort, and security. Great thing Flannery archived by making the Misfit utterly unlikeable, despite his effort to believe and portray himself as a decent man. Only someone as manipulative as the grandmother would manipulate him.
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I think you’re right; the grandma was a true manipulator, and I think karma dealt her a just punishment. You are correct in pointing out that the family was ill-equipped in every way to handle the realities of life outside of their fictitious cocoon of safety and luxury. And in my opinion, they received exactly what they deserved as a result of their efforts.