Analysis Of The Misfit

She even is laughing about falling through the bottom of the rocking chair even though she was worried about injuring herself at the time it happened. And she sends her children through a loop when she decides to raise the juvenile, Wesley, in her home. Her family is totally against her decisions, but she seems to be rather confident in how things have turned out, and has made some large plans for her future. She seems to feel that God has kept her for a reason, and she must give every effort to fulfill His wishes and give aid to Wesley in his time of need.

They might even say that she would lose her faith in God because He let this happen to her. I do not think this is true because for most of the story she did not know if her family was alive. “Yet I was not without sorrow, to think how many were looking and longing, and my own children amongst the rest, to enjoy that deliverance that I had now received, and I did not know whether ever I should see them again (twentieth remove)”. Her hope that her family was alive that she would see them again might have made her will to live stronger, but I do not think that was her main reason for fighting to stay

The Misfit is our antagonist in the short story “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” written by Flannery O’Connor. He is a mysterious man who’d give you the sense of trust, but his actions are not pardoning. He’d show the qualities of a good man and the qualities of a psychopath. His background and stories don’t quite fit his actions, that is why he calls himself “The Misfit.” Although The misfit’s actions are ringing the bell of a psychopath, his inner-self shows otherwise. The Misfit is full of flaws but he is no psychopath, he’s just a man who is forced to live a life that was not meant for him. Deep down inside he’s a good man, but life forced him to act differently.

The Misfit is a complex character created by Flannery O’Connor. He is talked about first when the Grandmother reads his criminal background at the breakfast table. Right when the Misfit meets the family the Grandmother starts questioning his faith and past, and through the Grandmother’s persistent behavior that you find out the truth behind the Misfits hard exterior. The reader understands that the Misfit was brought up by parents who were the “finest people in the world” (O’Connor 1312). With this type of background, how can one expect the Misfit to be such a cold blooded killer? Because of his kind nature in the beginning of the story, it’s almost impossible to understand how he could just kill. Through deeper analysis one can

In Flannery O’Connor’s A Good Man is Hard to Find, she addresses how much GOD loves HIS children. O’Connor was a devout Roman Catholic, and her beliefs show through her writings. In a Good Man is Hard to Find, she illustrates her beliefs through a family trip ending in tragedy but also a humbling realization that everyone is equivalent. O’Connor illustrates that no matter how horrible a person is in his or her life, GOD will always love them.

The Misfits ways of getting rid of people that is with god is to send the souls away from their physical self. He wants to purify the world from this belief and prove that god do not exist in the world humans live in. Unfortunately, the grandmother is one of those people who has an obsession with god knowing he is real and will protect her from any harm that comes to her. Knowing that the grandmother beliefs towards god have affected her, The Misfits have ended her with three shots to the chest. This shows how brutal The Misfits are and how they will respond to people like the

When the family encountered the fugitives, the grandma pointed out that one of them was The Misfit. The grandma then tries to find a way out of the predicament by talking to the murderer to save herself and the family. The grandma said to The Misfit, “Pray, pray, pray, pray…If you would pray, Jesus would help” (306). The grandma uses religion to get herself out of the situation by convincing The Misfit to submit to the power of Christ. The Misfit replied back by saying, “I don’t want help, I’m doing all right by myself” (307). Even though the murderer knows that Jesus could help him, he doesn’t want any assistance. After stalling for a long time to get herself out, The Misfit shot the grandma three times in the chest area. Overall, the grandma’s response to The Misfit got the whole family dead due to her revealing the true identity of the cold-blooded murderer.

The Misfit and The Grandmother A Good Man Is Hard To Find authored by Flannery O’Conner revolves around the themes of mistrusts of others and grace. She uses two main characters to depict these two themes, The Grandmother and Misfit to expound the themes of mistrusts of others and grace respectively. He depicts The Misfit as a person lacking grace and has distrust or others, including Jesus and Christianity in general. The story has some intense conflict, because there is also a deceitful grandmother with her own objective.

There are two deeper meanings hidden in this text though that even good can have some bad in it and what the Misfit and Grandmother represent (in a larger view point). The Grandmother appears to be trying to be a good Christen women by trying to turn the child around to remember god, the deeper meaning to this is that she is scared of dying and will try anything to live another day even trying to accept the child as her own, which leads her to her own demise. This shows that while there may appear to be good in everyone there is also bad. The Grandmother is a great example of this because she tries to appear like a good Christen women by helping the child to find god by asking him to pray when her actual motive was to get him to let her live. The quote, “"She would of been a good woman," The Misfit said, "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life."

Even facing death the grandmother still called on Jesus and evoked Misfit to pray, but he insisted he hadn’t been treated fairly and that his punishments have not fit his crimes. The Misfit even went on to say some derogatory things about Jesus. When Misfit killed the grandmother, he appeared to not have any remorse or shame in doing it, he even spoke of her as being too talkative, etc., one of his last statements to one of his cohorts was “It’s no real pleasure in

The irony in the story is shown when the grandmother, who thinks she is a good Christian, in reality is just as evil as the Misfit.

Immediately after the accident, a man comes to help and the grandmother recognizes the man as the misfit. Shortly after giving the family hospitality he begins to kill them off one by one. The misfit represented the evil in the world and the grandmother is showed to be the noble one compared to the misfit. The

Faith in Christ is the stronghold for Helen Burns. She considers living to the glory of God the purpose of her life. Her troubles and sorrows do not sway her faith, for she declares it her “duty to bear it” (56). For Helen, living a fruitful life means imitating the character of Christ. When Jane inquires why she allows her superiors to treat her unjustly, Helen first replies that Christ

Sarah allowing her husband to have a child with their servant was incredibly selfless. It also showed the pervasive idea

Sarah, after hearing the news, told Cate that it was our family’s lack of faith—and specifically, Cate’s lack of faith—that caused the baby to die. We did not “claim” God’s healing for Hannah, and if we had done so she would have been born alive. The suffering from Hannah’s death was magnified by Sarah’s assertions, and our family is still grappling with both. It has broken my mother’s heart, caused my father to believe his lack of faith killed his grandchild, and made Cate suffer more than she