Grandmother's Bout With Death
Why did the Misfit say, "She would have been a good woman, if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life"(O'Connor 363)? The Misfit said this because the good in the grandmother did not show in her until she was facing death. This quote comes from the story "A Good Man is Hard To Find" by Flannery O'Connor. In this story, the grandmother is a round character. Some ways that the grandmother changes are as follows: she becomes honest, she loses her faith in God, and she loses her over-manipulation. One reason that the grandmother is a round character is toward the end of the story she becomes honest. When the story opens, the grandmother is depicted as a dishonest person. For example, when her family starts to leave for Flori
She kept telling the Misfit to pray and Jesus will help him. da the grandmother hides her cat so he could come with them. Just as she thought they were about to be at the house she remembered that the house she remembered was "not in Georgia but in Tennessee"(357). In the story "A Good Man is Hard To Find" the grandmother changes drastically upon her confrontation with the Misfit. She manipulated Bailey to turn around and go back to the house. Normally she would have argued with him about this, but she was so scared he would kill her that she agreed. When the Misfit says, "Jesus is the only person to ever raise the dead and he shouldn't have done it"(362) she mumbles, "Maybe he did not raise the dead"(362). The third way the grandmother changes is she loses her over-manipulative personality. The grandmother wanted everything her way or no way. For example, while they were driving the grandmother tells a story about a house with a secret panel. She lost her over-manipulative ways when she agreed with the Misfit, about Jesus not rising from the dead. She knew that Bailey did not like "to arrive at a motel with a cat"(352). At the end of the story, when the Misfit holds a gun to her head, she becomes honest; she tells him "why you're one of my babies,"(362) implying that she is part responsible for him. She lost her over-manipulative ways when she says, "Maybe he didn't raise the dead"(362). These are just three of the ways that the grandmother changed upon her meeting with death.
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