Grace In Flannery O Connor's A Good Man

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O’Connor is known for putting her characters in violent situations to redeem them or to give them a moment of grace that questions their moral stance. The grandmother in “A Good Man” has her moment of grace right before she is shot by the Misfit. It is just when the grandmother encounters death that she starts to change her views. Armond Boudreaux states that “For the grandmother, however, we can feel only pity at best, and when her moment of beatitude and her ecstatic last words signal that she has received the grace she has lacked all her life—“You’re one of my own children!”—we may quite rightly feel bewildered or even outraged” (151). He feels as if the grandmother’s moment of grace was not worth the lives of her family and that she should

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