The story starts out when the reader is introduced to the grandmother, who doesn’t want to take the trip to Florida because of a killer, known as the Misfit that was heading to Florida. She is ignored by most of the family members as they decide to take the trip. During their trip, the grandmother convinces her son, Bailey, to go to see an old plantation in Georgia, which was really in Tennessee. As they drive down this endless dirt road, Bailey loses control of the car and totals it. They climb out of the car and meet these three men. One of those men was the Misfit and the grandmother introduces him as “the Misfit” to the family. While the grandmother is negotiating to the Misfit, each one of the family members is taken by one of the men to the woods where they were shot. As she gets closer and closer to death, she tries to save her life by trying to relate to the Misfit.

At the end of the story, it seems like they changed each other’s views of religion. One can also argue that the Misfit represents good and the grandmother represents evil. I think that the Misfit is being realistic in the way he describes how he isn’t responsible for his actions, and that it is the society that he lives in that wrongfully accuses him of doing evil. The Misfit can also be someone who represents good and represents Christ. If he played the role of Christ then he thought that the grandmother’s behavior was wrong so he shot her so she can start a new life. This subject can be argued both ways. Flannery O’Connor analyzes what is good and what is evil through these characters. And maybe we can see that O’Connor is trying to explain people’s views of religion or maybe the fact that they weren’t concerned enough about their religion, during that time.

The grandmother is a very caring and selfish lady that forgets a lot and who looked out for her own self. She shows this before her family members are taken to the woods, and all she’s thinking about is saving her own life. “You wouldn’t shoot a lady, would you?”(Pg. 127) She also represents good, and Christianity in the beginning, but at the end of the story she tries to become someone she isn’t. Knowing that he was a criminal, she tried to be on his good side and she shows this when she says, “you shouldn’t call yourself The Misfit because I know you’re a good man at heart. I can just look at you a

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