"Good Man is Hard to Find" by Flannery O'Conner.

In Flannery O'Conner's "Good Man is Hard to Find" the misfit declares, "she would have been a good woman if there had been someone to shoot her every minute of her life" (1288). This statement indicates that he had knowledge of what type of individual she was personally just from listening to her lecturing and persuasion to spare her life. The grandmother's role in the story comes off as overbearing and vain. She is a woman …

…to the fact that she was always craving for attention and constantly gloating about herself. In Flannery O'Conner's "Good Man is Hard to Find" the misfit's remark about the grandmother simply states the truth. He's not the only one that feels that she is a nuisance the family also felt the same way given that she was always seeking for attention. If she hadn't been self-centered, the circumstances would have ended differently with the misfit.