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A Good Man Is Hard To Find by Flannery O'Connor

The character of "The Misfit", in the story, "A good man is hard to find", explains the author's choice for the title. When the misfit, came upon the accident site of the family, the character of the grandmother, became the main person to interact with the misfit.

She had stated earlier, when she read the article in the paper about his escape from prison, that she wouldn't take the children anywhere with him on the loose. Ironically it was her idea not to go to Florida and instead to Tennessee that put them in the position that they were in.

The old lady tried her best to reason with him and asked him to pray to Jesus. Obviously he felt that it was Jesus' fault that the world was the way it was, and how he became who he was. He felt that Jesus had thrown everything of balance, by raising the dead.

From the time he was young he was told that he was different from his brothers and sisters. That he would always get into everything. He had done prison time for killing his father, although he claimed that it wasn't true. That he had died of the flu. He didn't even remember why he had been put there. He was a troubled man and had no problem killing people. He had no conscience, as proven how he coldly had the family killed and then he killed the old women. He was insane obviously and something happened in his life to make him be unfazed about killing people. He also had no problem putting on the shirt of a dead man. He told his companions to just throw her on the pile of the other dead family members.

In the end the grandmother had tried to make the misfit feel that he had worth and I guess she banked on the fact that he must have some good in him. But, he was resistant and had a negative