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English Journal

Throughout the course of normal life, there comes a time when all hope is lost, all meaning is shattered, and the only relief is to go through a small change, ultimately becoming a different person, with a different personality and different motivations. In the case of Flannery O'Connor's short story, "A Good Man is Hard to Find," the Grandmother finds herself in a murderous situation and suddenly, she is an entirely knew woman. One of the characters puts it quite well when he remarks, "‘She would have been a good woman,' The Misfit said, ‘if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life'" (O'Connor 442). While this is a rather unorthodox saying, it is both true for the Grandmother and for many Americans today. Everyone goes through a time in their life that is less than they want for themselves; everyone changes who they are if the opportunity suites it.
When the Grandmother is first introduced, she is a rather rash woman; she has no problem lying to......


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