A Good Man Is Hard to Find

In Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man Is Hard to Find", the characters experience moments of grace and redemption. Being a Catholic and a firm believer in redemption, even O'Connor's most evil characters could experience this. I think O'Connor chose to write this story partly because she wanted to persuade her readers to convert to Christianity, or to live like a Christian should. O'Connor shows and expresses her ideas of grace and redemption through her characters: the grandmother, the Misfit, Bailey, the two children, and the mother.
The grandmother is the central character of the story, who lives in the past. She is pushy, manipulative, deceitful, self-serving, and a liar. The grandmother also was concerned with class and being a lady. "Her collars and cuffs were white organdy trimmed with lace and at her neckline she had pinned a purple spray of cloth violets containing a sachet." "In case of an accident, anyone seeing her dead on the highway would know at once that she was a lady (303)." …