Transformation In A Good Man Is Hard To Find

In “A Good Man is Hard to Find”, the family tries to present themselves as a perfect family to others. All of the characters throughout the story are very ungrateful and rude until they need something in return. I felt that the transformation near the end of the story is in fact the grandmother’s faith. After encountering the Misfit, he says, “‘God never made finer woman than my mother and my daddy’s heart was pure gold’” (O’Connor 432). After the grandmother realizes that he is religious, she prays upon god too. She thinks that if she presents herself as religious, then he may not harm her. The grandmother says, “‘If you would pray…Jesus would help you” (O’Connor 434). At the beginning of the story the grandmother wasn’t religious. she was