GRACE In the story “Cathedral” and “A Good Man is hard to find” the characters achieve a certain type of grace in one level or another. Although these stories seem to have nothing to do with grace, especially “A Good Man…” their basis is built on the grace that one achieves. One might think what is grace. Webster’s dictionary defines grace as, A disposition to or an act or instance of kindness, courtesy, or …showed first 75 words of 944 total…

…showed last 75 words of 944 total…the man’s heart that would grow and ultimately change him. In these two stories there are many forms of grace present, that which appear to be the grace of God, the grace that one lends to some one else, the grace of privilege, or the grace of enlightenment. In these stories each person received their grace in somewhat of the same way, and still managed to receive other forms of grace in different ways.