A Good Man Is Hard To Find - Flannery O’ Connor

        The Misfit is a man who really doesn’t want to kill anyone and most likely wouldn’t have but, “The grandmother shrieked… You’re The Misfit!” at that point he had to kill her and the entire family “it would have been better for all of you, lady, if you hadn’t of reckernized me.” The Misfit just needed to get a different car maybe some different clothes so he and his gang could keep on moving to Florida. However once grandma recognized him he was not going to be thrown back in jail with the head-doctor’s who would be telling him he killed his father. Again he would be fighting the system that he feels has screwed him from the start.  

        “A good man is hard to find” is the statement that rules the story, The Misfit is not a bad man just someone who needed someone when there was no one for him. Constantly being told what he was doing was bad. Even from the Grandmother who was trying to get him to take pity on her. When none had been shown pity or even consideration to him, so when Grandmother said “ “Jesus!”… “You’ve got blood! I know you wouldn’t shoot a lady! I know you come from good people! Pray! Jesus, you ought not to shoot a lady. I’ll give you all the money I got!” ”The Grandmother had not only insulted The Misfit by trying to offer him all her money. She also wasn’t interested in the others in her family and was only out for to save her self. Now by shooting her he was doing something that just might have saved her if someone had threatened to do it every minute of her life.

        The Misfit knew that there was no real pleasure in life. Everyone is just buying there time till they die, and once you die your going to eventually rise from the dead again. Jesus did it once and threw everything off balance by doing so. The Misfit was just out to do some meanness not pleasure before he died.