It's not hard to feel some degree of sympathy for Grandma at the beginning of "A Good Man is Hard to Find" by Flannery O'Connor , but the reader quickly realizes that this is not exactly the author's intention. Throughout the story, the writer successfully manages, through tone, dialogue, and character description, to establish that the grandmother is the one to earn the title of Misfit. The third-person narrative is tightly focused on the grandmother's point of view, fixing her more strongly in the reader's mind than other characters. Also, the fact that the older woman remains nameless; she is ignored by her son and daughter-in-law and treated with a certain contempt by her grandchildren, supports this initial invitation to view the old lady with sympathy. However, because of the grandmother, the whole family suffers, directly or indirectly. However, the grandmother considers herself a respectable, dignified, traditional and civilized person, who judges everyone but manages to overlook her own flaws. Therefore, this story reflects on how through conflict a person can find the "good" in others or in themselves, this story also shows that everyone has flaws, but sometimes it is too late to realize their mistakes. the grandmother is shown as a self-centered and manipulative character. He has his own ideas about the next vacation, but no one cares about them. "Why don't you stay home?" asks her eight-year-old nephew dismissively as her precocious niece contemptuously remarks, “She wouldn't stay home to be queen for a day” (227). However, reading between the lines of June Star's observations, the reader quickly realizes that the grandmother is... at the center of the card... I was one, just as a good man might have been. However, from that moment on some changes occurred in him. He pointed out that shooting people is “no real pleasure in life,” which contradicts his earlier sentiment that there is “no pleasure but meanness” and which suggests that he had undergone some sort of conversion (236). The way the grandmother connects with the misfit at the end of the story reinforces how similar they are despite being so outwardly different. The title "Misfit" he had given himself was not exclusively his as an even greater misfit lay dead at his feet. It is this ending that elevates the tone of the story from one of narrow-minded bigotry and dark, gratuitous violence to one of hope and the possibility of redemption, which is undoubtedly the author's message. Works Cited A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery Oh Connor