In “A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor, the old lady is selfish and the Misfit is cautious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The grandma is selfish because she twists her words. When she is beginning to talk with the Misfit, she tries to convince him that he was a good man with the sole purpose of convincing him to help get her out. She doesn\u2019t actually care about him. Also, what the old lady deems as good is what lines up with her own beliefs. She doesn\u2019t realize nor care that perhaps people have different opinions and sometimes she is wrong. Later, when the Misfit is talking about his life, he says \u201c You can do one thing or you can do another, kill a man or take a tire off his car, because sooner or later you\u2019re going to forget what it was you done and just be punished for it.\u201d He also adds, \u201cI call myself The Misfit because I can\u2019t make what all I done wrong fit what all I gone through in punishment.\u201d He talks about how unfair life and people was and gets very philosophical. The old woman comforts the Misfit, not because she sympathizes with him, but because she wants him to spare her life. She also brings up how he \u201cwouldn\u2019t hurt a woman\u201d multiple times throughout the short story, further proving that she doesn\u2019t care. Therefore, the woman is selfish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Misfit however, is cautious and got in trouble for something he didn\u2019t do, which led him to his current life. He believes that you can\u2019t trust anyone because of his personal experiences. Though he talks about his past life with the old lady, he still doesn\u2019t trust her. This is proven when The Misfit shoots the grandmother because he touched her. He was jumpy and when he felt that someone was touching him, he reacted out of instinct. Therefore, the Misfit is cautious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The old lady is selfish and tries to twist her words, but the Misfit doesn’t trust her. In the end, because she tried to fake-console The Misfit, he shoots her and her selfishness was the reason for her end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In “A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor, the old lady is selfish and the Misfit is cautious. The grandma is selfish because she twists her words. When she is beginning to talk with the Misfit, she tries to convince him that he was a good man with the sole purpose of … Continue reading Character Traits from “A Good Man is Hard to Find”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":147,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8KIb4-1W6","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunnyyouth.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunnyyouth.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunnyyouth.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunnyyouth.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/147"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunnyyouth.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7446"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sunnyyouth.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7478,"href":"https:\/\/sunnyyouth.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7446\/revisions\/7478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunnyyouth.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunnyyouth.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunnyyouth.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}