A Good Man is hard to find

On one stage the story's label cites to the remarks of an admired piece of music - "A good man is hard to find will perpetually get the other kind." But on another stage it in addition puts forward Christ's censure to Peter when Peter attempted to call him good, and Jesus replied that no one should be called good (Mark 10:18) - a fault the Grandmother makes repetitively in her find with the Misfit. At the matching time, it is in addition accurate to declare that, excepting Satan; no one should be called entirely evil-minded, surely not in any unquestionable sense. Good and evil-minded, as potentialities and as actualities, are inextricably inter-twined in human beings, and this is accurate for both the Grandmother and the Misfit. It is more very correct to chat of gradations of human good and evil-minded, and of the drama of option in the face of striving against significance options. O'Connor's narrative investigates an assortment of these picks and their extra subjects, as well as putting forward the unresolved imperceptible forces past individuality and circumstance that aid to profile human destiny. (Desmond, 135)

A midpoint belief of O'Connor's Catholic theology, articulated by St. Thomas Aquinas and other theologians, is that evil-minded has no being, and that evil-minded perpetually becomes noticeable as a good to the one who commits it, i.e., as a thing favorable him. But thieving the family's tattered motor vehicle, while valued, is only the instantaneous objective of the Misfit; it is not the locus of his interior vitality and desire. His two-way chat with the Grandmother uncovers more things about his deeper wishes for, the most valued of which is that the Misfit desires some rationale and justification for his sacred predicament (Cohesion, 114). He desires an ...