A Good Man is Hard to Find4

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“The Grandmother’s Grace” Analyzation of “A Good Man is Hard to Find” The story “A Good Man Is Hard to Find,” written by Flannery O’Connor, tells the metaphorical tale of a family’s fatal confrontation with The Misfit, an escaped serial killer. The incidents and characters throughout the story are aspects of a plot intending to symbolize the spiritual grace passed from one human to another, without regard for kindness or evil. The prominent characte…

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…n being she had ever known who had just destroyed everything she loved, her family. The Misfit says, "She’d of been a good woman if there’d been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life" (416). The line is uncomfortably funny, but also moving because the theme is redemption and grace in the face of unbearable tragedy.