What are the main arguments of Madison Jones's essay "A Good Man's Predicament," which deals with Flannery O'Connor's story "A Good Man Is Hard to...

In his essay
A Good Mans Predicament, Madison Jones essentially takes issue with Flannery OConnors own
interpretation of the very end of the story.  Jones offers a different interpretation and
suggests that his own reading may be truer to the actual phrasing of the story and to reality
(at least as reality is generally understood) than is OConnors interpretation.  He implies that
the two interpretations may not be incompatible, but he suggests that if they
cannot be reconciled, then his interpretation makes better sense of the
story.

In an essay on , OConnor herself had argued that God uses the
grandmother to touch The Misfit, both literally and figuratively.  This touch was a moment of
grace €“ an opportunity for The Misfit to transform his life spiritually, if only he would take
advantage of the opportunity.  By reaching out to The Misfit (OConnor had argued), the
grandmother truly and finally lives her Christian faith:

The...