When we first meet the grandmother, what kind of person is she? Whatdo her various remarks reveal about her? Does she remain a static character, or does she in any way change as the story goes on?
What will be an ideal response?
- O’Connor loves to pick unlikely, ordinary people and show how, by the sudden and unexpected operation of God’s grace, they are granted the possibility of sanctity. In “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” the nitwit grandmother dies loving (and presumably forgiving) The Misfit. In the course of the story, the grandmother grows and changes; she does not remain flat or static. At first, she seems a small-minded biddy, selfish or at least self-centered, prone to stupid remarks like “Oh look at the cute little pickaninny!” (par. 18) and “People are certainly not nice like they used to be” (par. 35), capable of blaming Europe for “the way things were now” (par. 44), and regretting that she hadn’t married Mr. Teagarden “because he was a gentleman and had bought Coca-Cola stock when it first came out” (par. 26). These remarks reveal her to be a manipulative, self-centered, silly woman, but by the end, she gives a final gesture that indicates a radical infusion of grace and compassion. As Flannery O’Connor herself wrote, “I have found that violence is strangely capable of returning my characters to reality and preparing them to accept their moment of grace. Their heads are so hard that almost nothing else will do the work” (“On Her Own Work”).
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What will be an ideal response?