Daily Archives: March 21, 2022

Flannery O’Connor has presented to the readers a piece of morale puzzle, in which no one is a true hero with perfect characteristics and committed no wrongdoings. Through the eyes of the grandmother, a self-righteous and hypocritical protagonist who guilt trips others into her own benefits, we can discover the darkness of human nature. There is no true definition for what a “good man” is meant to be and how a “good man” is supposed to act; it changes based on how one views others. We can see this portrayed by the grandmother, and a man is “good” if they hold the same moral values. The grandmother calls Red Sammy a “good man” because he trusts people and lets them charge gas on “credit” while also misses the old-time like the grandmother in which they both believe things are getting terrible and people are no longer innocent. However, the grandmother also says that she knows the Misfit is a “good man” at heart, and he will not shoot a lady when she knows that she is the only one left of the family and everyone else has been shot. She was careless of other family members and was only worried about herself and her lady’s appearances, as we know that even if she had on a “navy straw sailor hat with a bunch of white violets on the brim,” anyone who found her dead on the highway would know she was a lady. The grandmother desperately calls the Misfit a “good man,” claiming that he does not have “common blood” she does so out of selfishness, wanting to skew the Misfit into having the same moral code as she does. In contrast, the Misfit has enough recognition of himself that he knows he “ain’t a good man,” but also not […]