Sheila Zhirzhan Discussion 8

In the story “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor the “interior” the author speaks of means that the character in her story, the grandmother whos a religious person but also very much racist who constantly passes judgment on others and an annoying character overall, and also the Misfit who’s a criminal and an ignorant man who believed the world punished him from doing what they (society) thought was wrong because he didn’t believe there was a right or wrong thing to do. Although these characters are described differently they’re both similar in a way because both of these characters at the end try to find mercy and not for one other but for themselves, The grandmother before dying had a self-reflection of her evil actions and so did the Misfit after killing the grandmother, he also came to a self-reflection that the grandmother was actually a good person and not everyone was unkind, The “interior” meaning was that anyone can change and these two characters in the story were a good example of two horrible characters have a self-reflection toward the end of the story.