Misguided Misfit

During class we were talking about where and if grace is evident in A Good Man is Hard to Find. It's hard to tell, especially since I haven't read a lot of Flannery O' Connor's works, but I think in the end directly after the grandmother touches the Misfit and he recoils, that is where grace is seen. Before, the Misfit talks about how one should "enjoy the few minutes you got left the best way you can-- by killing somebody or burning down his house or doing some other meanness to him. No pleasure but meanness," but after the grandmother touches him and he shoots her he said (about killing her), "It's no real pleasure in life." He admits that now he finds no pleasure in what he previously said would bring him pleasure. This transition happens because the grandmother touches him, but also because of the conversation they have directly prior. They are talking about Jesus raising the dead and the Misfit wishes he had been there- he doesn't know whether or not Jesus raised the dead because he wasn't there. Maybe that's why the grandmother was able to call him her child- they were united by their doubt, but they handled it in different ways. When the Misfit recognized his doubt he recognized his reason for his outlook on life. He says maybe if he had been there (when Jesus raised the dead) he wouldn't be like he is now. The Misfit found pleasure in meanness because he didn't see the value of good and the value of grace. Receiving grace requires faith -which is the unknown. When the Misfit realized that despite his meanness he still did not have pleasure, I think that's when the evidence of grace is seen- he knows he has to have something more in life than the fame and fear inspired by being a serial killer. Death is part of his constant reality- maybe it finally hit him that he didn't know if Jesus raises the dead- then or now. Since he doesn't know, he has no hope unless he turns to a higher Being. However, I don't think at this point he is willing to do that. Grace is offered... but refused... leaving a bitter and broken misguided Misfit.
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