At the end of “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” the grandmother is trying to save herself and discusses Catholic topics of prayer, Jesus, and mercy. One such reply of the Misfit to the grandmother is the following: “‘Jesus was the only One that ever raised the dead…and He shouldn’t have done it. He thown [sic] everything off balance” (21). O’Connor’s narrator describes the Misfit as scholarly early in the story, and this reference seems to connect with this above passage in that he considers himself a scholarly, logical person (13). But, according to the Misfit, Jesus defied logic and refuses to believe He did raise the dead. This refusal is shown through the Misfit’s actions of killing the grandmother and her family, which could have been prevented (according to the Misfit) “if [he] had of been there” when Jesus rose the dead (21-
At the end of “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” the grandmother is trying to save herself and discusses Catholic topics of prayer, Jesus, and mercy. One such reply of the Misfit to the grandmother is the following: “‘Jesus was the only One that ever raised the dead…and He shouldn’t have done it. He thown [sic] everything off balance” (21). O’Connor’s narrator describes the Misfit as scholarly early in the story, and this reference seems to connect with this above passage in that he considers himself a scholarly, logical person (13). But, according to the Misfit, Jesus defied logic and refuses to believe He did raise the dead. This refusal is shown through the Misfit’s actions of killing the grandmother and her family, which could have been prevented (according to the Misfit) “if [he] had of been there” when Jesus rose the dead (21-