“A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor What happens to the grandmother in the story? The grandmother is at a very different point from the beginning of the story, “A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor than at the end, not just in terms of her physical presence but her mentality too. In the beginning the reader is clued into the grandmother’s shallow thoughts of death. …showed first 75 words of 579 total…

…showed last 75 words of 579 total…this story, it’s what the misfit has done to change her. Where she’s at the end of the story compared to the beginning is completely different. She has changed mentally: the last thing she would have thought before was that she could have a profound and impacting conversation with the misfit, an unstable and generally evil human being. The grandmother sees the misfit’s views on the world, and eventually changes him too.