Mistakes In A Good Man Is Hard To Find
People make decisions hundreds of times per day. Often, they go against their morals. But what is one immoral decision going to do? As a result, most people do not realize the small wrongdoings and do not connect the way they live their life to the ever changing society around them. In A Good Man Is Hard to Find, Flannery O’Connor teaches us that everyone has made mistakes in their lives that they will not discover until they are faced with death. We learn about the regrets of life through a woman, who at the beginning, is pictured as loving and caring grandmother. However, when a gun is placed to her head, she recognizes all of the mistakes of her life, which in the end allows her to die at peace.
We are introduced to the very loving and …show more content…
As the Misfit and his men slowly kill off her family and her death becomes inevitable, she begins to reflect on her own life. The Grandma begins by trying to convince him to turn to faith. However, as she continues, she sees many of her qualities within the Misfit. She says, ‘“ Why you're one of my babies. You're one of my own children!’ She reached out and touched him on the shoulder.” At this moment, she realizes all of the bad things that she has done in her life and sees that the way she lives her life is the kind of life that breeds a serial killer. Not very many people have the ability to raise a serial killer, allowing the reader to conclude that she lives a life disjointed from society and does not conform to the beliefs that many people live by. As a quick reaction and an attempt to distance himself from the humanity of the grandma, the Misfit, “sprang back as if a snake had bitten him and shot her three times through the chest. Then he put his gun down on the ground and took off his glasses and began to clean them.” This type of connection frightened him, as this is the first sense of connection and care that the Misfit has felt throughout the killing spree. This is much different than how others would face a serial killer. This comes as the grandma comes to good terms with her life. As a result of this, the grandmas deceased body, “half sat and half lay in a puddle of blood with her legs crossed under her like a child's and her face smiling up at the cloudless sky.” This is not how we typically imagine a dead body. The way she is described makes her sound much like a buddha, with her legs crossed and smiling towards the sky. This is something that is typically associated with peace and comfort. This means, that the grandma had come to terms with the bad things that she had done in her life and could now relax and die
We are introduced to the very loving and …show more content…
As the Misfit and his men slowly kill off her family and her death becomes inevitable, she begins to reflect on her own life. The Grandma begins by trying to convince him to turn to faith. However, as she continues, she sees many of her qualities within the Misfit. She says, ‘“ Why you're one of my babies. You're one of my own children!’ She reached out and touched him on the shoulder.” At this moment, she realizes all of the bad things that she has done in her life and sees that the way she lives her life is the kind of life that breeds a serial killer. Not very many people have the ability to raise a serial killer, allowing the reader to conclude that she lives a life disjointed from society and does not conform to the beliefs that many people live by. As a quick reaction and an attempt to distance himself from the humanity of the grandma, the Misfit, “sprang back as if a snake had bitten him and shot her three times through the chest. Then he put his gun down on the ground and took off his glasses and began to clean them.” This type of connection frightened him, as this is the first sense of connection and care that the Misfit has felt throughout the killing spree. This is much different than how others would face a serial killer. This comes as the grandma comes to good terms with her life. As a result of this, the grandmas deceased body, “half sat and half lay in a puddle of blood with her legs crossed under her like a child's and her face smiling up at the cloudless sky.” This is not how we typically imagine a dead body. The way she is described makes her sound much like a buddha, with her legs crossed and smiling towards the sky. This is something that is typically associated with peace and comfort. This means, that the grandma had come to terms with the bad things that she had done in her life and could now relax and die