O'Connor's work is that of very dark humor, irony and grotesque characters and
             situations. Her themes are of a religious nature, with characters who experience horrible,
             soul wrenching moments that lead them to an epiphany. For O'Connor the merging of
             good and evil does not necessarily mean that good prevails; happy endings aren't an
             ingredient of her tales. O'Connor was raised as a Southern Catholic and was devoted to
             her faith. She recognized the paradox of the Southern personality and culture regarding
             etiquette and religion. She was quoted as saying the South "may not be Christ - centered
             but was most certainly Christ haunted." We see that the grandmother and the Misfit are
             haunted by Christ in "A Good Man...." Neither are Christ - centered and yet the
             grandmother is portrayed as the more qualified of the two to accept Christ's salvation.
             The question is 'is she more qualified? She would certainly say so. Her moment of
             redemption comes at the hands of a character who is evil beyond belief. However, the
             grandmother is quite evil herself. Her evilness has been disguised as that of an innocent
             grandmother which makes the reader uncomfortable in judging her harshly. The
             grandmother does indeed have her moment of redemption but not until exhausting every
             means possible to avoid it. She invokes the name of Jesus in an attempt to save the Misfit
             and herself. O'Connor's judgmental attitude comes through in the story by means of her
             narrative strategy. We are privy to grandmother's thoughts on a couple occasions and
             these tend to show her high opinion of herself and selfishness "...anyone seeing her
             ...would know she was a lady." "...Bailey would not be willing to lose any time...she
             wanted to see it...." This would appear to be a limited omniscient narration and yet for the
             most part the narration is third person. The narrator isn't completely...