The interior of the story is about the devastation of a whole family brought by the grandmother. Looking at the consequence, the cause of death for six family members is thought to be attributed to Misfit. Obviously, Misfit plays a villain role in the story who doesn’t have any good. But if we compare him with the grandmother, we will find out there are many similarities between them. They both lacked the love and care from the family. Misfit, in a extreme way, murders his father. The grandmother, in a different way, decides to tease them after she fails to persuade them to go to Tennessee. Even though she clearly knows the plantation is in Tennessee instead of Georgia, she lies to the kids, making them not have a good time. By doing so, not only she can let the family feel disappointment going to Florida, but also can make them regret not going to Tennessee. However, after they have a car accident, her plan is destroyed. Dramastically, even when she knows Misfit is killing his family, she just says he should pray but never tells him how to do that or how he can be a good man. Until the moment she is being killed, she suddenly shows the greatness of motherhood, which is considered a good characteristic. However, it is too late for her to be good.
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I totally agree with you she is the doom to her family’s slaughter and herself. She doesn’t show an ounce of remorse for her judgemental ways until the very end and it ends up biting her in the butt because it leads straight to her own death. It is a good moral lesson in teaching someone not to be so judgemental, but that lesson unfortunately comes too little too late for the grandmother who doesn’t even beg for her family at all and only herself which shows just how truly selfish she was.
I totally agree with you that the grandmother and the Misfit are both similar but in different ways. I would even say that the grandmother is a bit fake too, she is a bit self-centered and selfish. When the Misfit held her and her family hostage, she only cared about herself. The Misfit is a good but bad character, he is more aware of his surroundings and open-minded compared to the grandmother, but that doesn’t make him good because he still is a cold-blooded serial killer.