A Good Man is Hard to Find How does the grandmother overcome the reality of her mistakes and gain her redemption? In A Good Man Is Hard to Find, Flannery O’Connor creates characters who are constantly convicted for their actions. She vividly shows how their lives are drastically changed by a simple twist of fate. The grandmother searches for redemption. Through The Misfit she finds it in the most bizarre way. The Misfit shows …showed first 75 words of 922 total…

…showed last 75 words of 922 total…has given the grandmother a deeper joy and satisfaction than she has ever known in her many years of being disconnected from the reality of life. The characters of the grandmother and The Misfit show us how the redemption of one relies on the falling and torment of another. The simple twists of fate that life offers these characters demonstrates that, through a man haunted by God, redemption can come to an old “good Christian.”