Monday 13 August 2012

What details suggest that the Misfit has changed his mind about what the true meaning of life is "A Good Man is Hard to Find"? "A Good Man is Hard to...

In 's "A
Good Man is Hard to Find," the main characters, ironically perhaps, are bound together as
they have secrets that have kept them from salvation; also they are bound in themes of guilt and
sin.  While the grandmother is redeemed by the words of the Misfit, the grotesque who provides
her grace at the moment of violence when she says "You are one of my children," he
himself is not redeemed.

For, he has changed his mind completely about the
meaning of life. Wearing glasses that make him appear intelligent although he is clearly
uneducated, the Misfit steps from a large, black "hearse-like" automobile.  After she
recognizes him and continues to talk to him, the Misfit tells the grandmother that his father
said,

"it's some that can live their whole life out
without asking about it [life] and it's others who has to know why it is, and this boy is one of
the latters.  He's going to be into everything!"

He
tells the grandmother that he was a gospel...

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