A Good Man is Hard to Find

A good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Conner can be looked at two ways. The first way a person can view it by is that the grandmother was the only one with true faith. When she was faced with a terrible situation she started to pray and turn to god. She talked to the Misfit group about God and forgiveness. She told them to pray and they could be better men. Mean while the rest of her family just gave in. They didn't fight for life or prey to God, so they are the pretenders. Another way to look at it is that the grandmother was the pretender because she was begging and pleading for her life. If she was really a believer she would be accepting that this was God's plan. The rest of the family went into the woods without a fight. They knew what was going to happen, at least the adults did. They were the true believers in faith. They knew they would go to an internal resting place. Either way they all faced their faith when they were faced with death. It was handled differently by all.