Truth Is it Good or Evil

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Have you ever met someone who cares so much about the way they look or how people perceive them that they can't even focus on reality? This sums up the way the grandma in a "Good Man Is Hard To Find" is in a nutshell. Superficial would also be a good word to describe the way in which Grandma lived her life. Her whole existence on earth was unrealistic and to a certain extent surreal. Grandma led a life of not knowing the meaning of happiness. A perfect existence for grandma would be for everyone who knew her to think of her as a perfect lady who had no imperfections and always looked and acted like the lady she dreamed to be. For example, when grandma and the family took a road trip to Florida grandma dressed in her nicest clothes because she feared that if they got in an accident people would find her and they would not think she was a real "lady". To most people the thought of pre- planning an outfit in fear of an accident sounds rather peculiar and silly but that was just a normal thought of grandmas. We do not meet the misfit until the end of the story, but it is he who hold the key to grandmothers utter emotions. I believe the Misfit was grandmother's destiny. Flannery O'Conner creates a story that forces us to que

stion, "What is truth?" Through the grandmother who lives a life of cliches - we are taken on a journey of discovery. By the end of the journey we discover to be "good" we must be able to accept and forgive even those who deliver great loss to us.

Grandma cared so much about what people thought about her that she never really had time to sit back, enjoy life, and look at the bright side. She proved to be a changed woman from the beginning of the story to the end. Whether or not she was speaking words of truth to the misfit to save her life or she really meant what she said is undetermined. But, words of kindness were spoken and that right there earns grandma a lot of credit. The end was a dual perspective. Did grandma speak earnest words to the misfit to continue her selfish motivation to save herself, to accept the misfit as her own, or because she was providing the ultimate form of love to a man she felt sorry for. I think grandma realized that since she was going to die she would prove herself perhaps to God and accept this one menace to society. Overall, what grandmas intentions were before she died is unknown, but what we do know is that grandma for once in her life accepted a human being for who they were and for one last dying moment found a little truth in herself.

When the Misfit enters the story he brings out the real truth in grandma. It is kind of a paradox that the criminal actually brings good out of grandma. No one else in the world could accept a convicted murder. It kind of makes you wonder. Was grandma destined to meet this crazy man? It is not till the end of the story when we discover how much a person can change from one incident such as grandma appeare

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Category: English