Grandmother's Bout With Death

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 …

…is Hard To Find" the grandmother changes drastically upon her confrontation with the Misfit. She regains her honesty by telling the Misfit, you're one of my babies (362)? She loses her faith in Jesus when the Misfit persuades her that Jesus raising the dead was wrong. 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.