" A Good Man Is Hard to Find" pits the banal and superficial Grandmother against the malevolent Misfit. ... The author is critical of the womans empty reassurances that he is "a good man at heart" and if he would pray "Jesus would help" him. ... " The Grandmother realizes, OConnor explained in a later essay, "that she is responsible for the man before her and joined to him by ties of kinship which have their roots deep in the mystery she has been merely prattling about so far. ... In his parting words, however, he acknowledges how grace had worked through him to strengthen the womans faith: "She would of been a good woman, if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life.
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