Good Man Found
Good vs. ... A battle of good vs. ... a “good guy”, but in “A Good Man is Hard to Find” Flannery O’Connor gives the duel a new twist. Her “bad guy” has a revelation and is not totally evil, and her “good guy” inspires but thinks selfishly. In “A Good Man is Hard to Find” good and evil are portrayed through a grandma and a criminal. This story, that uses the word “good” numerous time to emphasize the fact that everybody has some good in them, uses the grandmother as a sort of divine intervention for the Misfit, allowing him to change his way of life. She tells him he has “good blood” and needs to pray to Jesus to save his soul; despite shooting her, he realizes she was a good woman trying to help him. ... ” Nobody is 100% good or 100% evil. ... The Grandmother attempts to convince the Misfit he is a good man, but he responds, “Nome, I ain’t a good man, but I ain’t the worst in the world neither. ... ” The grandmother in “A Good Man is Hard to Find” really beat the concept of prayer into the Misfit’s head.