The Path of Salvation in Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find"
The Path of Salvation in Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find" "If you were blind, you should have no sin: but now you say, we see; therefore your sin remains" (John 10:41) Flannery O'Conner explores the nature of sin and the path to in the relationship of The Misfit and the grandmother in her short story "A Good Man is Hard to Find." O'Connor gives us in the grandmother and The Misfit two contrasting opportunities for salvation from sin. The grandmother dressed in her sunday best clothes "in case of an accident , anyone seeing her dead would know at once she was a lady," showed a lady more concerned with the appearance of her life to others rather than her salvation which thus far she had failed to consider. And shows the grandmother's shallow thoughts of death. In the grandmother's mind, her clothing preparations prevent any misgivings about her status as a lady. But as the Misfit later points out,"there never was a body that gave the undertaker a tip." The Misfit on the other hand has constructed his philosophy of violence around the lack of proof of Jesus and has walled himself in it rejecting any oportunity for salvation. The Misfit says of Jesus, "I wasn't there so I can't say He didn't..." and
Christ accepted death for the sins of all people, however, and not only did the Misfit not do that, but he also killed other innocent people" (Brown). The Misfit has rejected the glimpses of the divine and instead is intent on "killing somebody or burning down his house, or doing some other meanness to him. why don't you pray," she begins the process of asking herself those same questions the final result of which is her salvation. This philosophy is in sharp contrast to the grandmothers southern manners in which she has misplaced her faith. html"Research Brief of 'A Good Man is Hard to Find' by Erik Secker" http://www. "The conversation between the grandmother and the Misfit gets the grandmother to the point where she can see and accept the action of grace in her own life and extend it to another. " "The Misfit has a much deeper understanding of religion and his belief system than does the grandmother.
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