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. The way the grandmother worries about if she dies and how people will perceive what she was wearing, and then decide based on this if she was a lady, epitomizes her personality of being superficial and apprehensive. Later on in the story the grandmother's readiness for death isn't quite apparent. This is shown with her behavior with the misfit; she shows herself to be the least prepared for death.

The conversation between the misfit and the grandmother depicts what has actually happened to the grandmother, and the difference of where she stands at the end compared to the beginning of the story. The misfit gets her to the point where she can see and accept the action of grace in her own life and extend it to another, the misfit changes her by getting her to the place where she can be a good woman. By doing this, the grandmother also changes the misfit, by making him in a sense a good man. This portrays another way that the grandmother's eminence in life has changed. In the beginning she seemed to have very little or almost no influence on others, but by the end of the story one can see that she has undoubtedly had an impact on the misfit. When she was first left alone with the misfit she had absolutely no affect on him. She was just tr

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