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English 102Professor Su SuoccaiArnaud Fragniere19 February 2014The different aspects of the grannies personality in A steady-going Man Is problematic to Find In Flannery OConnors story A Good Man Is Hard to find, the author narrates the events as a trey person, centering it on the nan who decides to go with her whole family for a thoroughfare trip from Georgia to Florida. The grandmother does not want to go to Florida. During the voyage she selfishly and manipulatively forces the whole family to go see a plantation that she mistakenly think is on the instruction. This results in them having an accident and meeting the Misfit, an extremely flushed criminal who defies the beliefs that Christians have in the ability of Jesus to raise the exanimate. As the story develops, the Misfit and his accomplices kill any members of the family except for the grandmother, who up to her death, wrongly tries to convince herself and the Misfit that he is a good man. At the end, the gr andmother has a moment of grace. However, it proves unavailing as the Misfit, proceeds to kill her without remorse. passim the text we realize that the major trait of the grandmothers personality is the fact that she considers herself as morally superior. This is based on her belief that she is a lady sophisticated, wealthy, overall better of a woman. In her eyes, this allows her to judge others. non only does she see herself as superior, but she thinks that her faith along with her humanity a good Christian would yet her from anything that could cross her path. We discover that she is withal extremely selfish and manipulative for her, her life has much more jimmy than anything else, including the life of her children and grandchildren. To unders... ...e times through the chest. The grandmothers selfishness and ability to duck people fails to help her during the biggest threat that she has to face through her entire existence her imminent death. Her inability to change the Misfits mind and manipulate him the way she wants costs her life. Oconnors story shows us an old grandmother who considers her as a superior person being powerless against her opposer in life. The Misfit, this criminal who doesnt believe there is real pleasure in life challenges everything the old lady might say or do in order to live. The old lady tries in vain to save her life using all the tools that she knows, even if she selfishly has to serve this use of goods and services and letting her whole family get killed. The grandmother must abandon all of her manipulative self-absorption, her focus on class and her external show of Christianity.