One of the best examples of this is A Good Man is Hard to Find. In this short story, the grandmother is the main character. As the family leaves for their vacation the grandmother remembers to dress like a lady in case something were to happen to her. She is a racist and loves to talk about her youth when she was a maiden lady. During their trip the grandmother leads the family down an old dirt road to see a house from her childhood. Minutes into the journey she realizes that it is the wrong road. She doesn’t tell her son, who is driving, because she was embarrassed. The grandmother’s cat jumps after being startled by the grandmother. The cat lands on the son and he wreaks the car. After the wreck, The Misfit, an escaped convict, pulls up next to the family. The grandmother recognizes him, and tries to talk him out of doing any harm to the family. When she realizes tha

Tanner is one of the few leading male characters in O’Connor’s stories. Though he may be male, he is just like the other leading characters. In Judgment Day, Tanner is an elderly man who lives with his daughter. His daughter lives in New York, but Tanner wants to move back to Georgia. Unlike the other characters, Tanner doesn’t care much about the classes in society- he is just a racist. His daughter is also racist: “If you don’t have any pride I have and I know my duty and I was raised to do it. My mother raised me to do it if you didn’t. She was from plain people but not the kind that likes to settle in with niggers” (O’Connor 250). Because Tanner was residing with a black employee, his daughter makes him move in with her. Tanner and his daughter live in an apartment building. Across the hall, a young black couple moves in. Tanner finds it fascinating that a black man can do well. With glee in his voice, Tanner tells his daughter about the neighbor: “A South Alabama nigger if I ever saw one. And got him this high-yeller, high-stepping woman with red hair and they two are going to live next door to you” (O’Connor 260). Tanner attempts to talk to his new neighbor, but every time he does, he insults the man. Tanner insists that the man is a preacher from Alabama. As it turns out, the man is actually an actor from New York City. The man gets furious at Tanner for the insults and throws him down the stairs where he dies (O’Connor 245-269).

t her family is in trouble, she tries to offer The Misfit her grace. She begs with him that a person from a good family wouldn’t do anything bad to others. She offers one last attempt at redemption as she utters, “Why you’re one of my babies. You’re one of my own children” (O’Connor 1439). In the end of t

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