O’connor’s A Good Man Is Hard To Find

From the title of the story itself, I was already expecting the plot to be showing the negatively charged side of the characters. True enough, the characters involved seem to be downplaying their positive side as persons and indeed thrive on the conflicts their circumstances brought them. Every step along the way is a test of the family members character.The bighearted guys who did the killing and whose presence have been foreshadowed already by the nan are cold-blooded murderers who do not mind ending the lives of even the old and the green characters there. Being a classic story most often included in the studies of the young (in school), I was expecting a rather conservative storyline instead of a violent one. So it was with great surprise for me that the story ended with less to be desired.Even if I was preparing myself to be open-minded in reading materials such as these, I still cant help feeling bad about the outcome of the story. It definitely changes my perception of thi ngs. The story reminds me that indeed, there is always a keen and a bad side in every person. When the grandmother touches the Misfit before she was killed, I believe she was then showing compassion and forgiveness to the person in question. It could also be an appeal to spare her life.However, I wishing to reiterate that after all the experiences the grandmother must have gone through, she can already see through a persons uncoiled self, and perhaps, just perhaps, she has seen the goodness of the killer inspite of it all. On the other hand, the Misfit also showed a willingness to be humane when he recognized the possibility of the grandmother becoming good in the true sense of the word, if only she can be reminded all the time. I believe the Misfits sentence was a metaphor.