The Wrong Path In A Good Man Is Hard To Find

In Flannery O’Connor’s, “A Good Man is Hard to Find”, the sense that each character is on the wrong path is not correct, some characters may have been on the right path. But I feel that there are only two certain characters in this story that were certainly on the wrong path, the grandmother and The Misfit. They both portrayed behaviors and actions, which I believe lead them on the wrong path. The grandmother is depicted as being a self-centered, self-involved woman who desires her way, an individual with slight recollection, just a simple old woman living with her single child. The Misfit on the other hand is a man who senses he has done nothing immoral, but has just been in the wrong place and time, but in the end approaches too near to the

reality, which frights him. Later on in the story, while sitting on the side of the street a vehicle with three males pull over, and the grandmother foolishly presents him to everybody as The Misfit. Individual by individual each person is taken to the forest and is shot although the grandmother attempts to spare her own life with The Misfit. Unexpectedly with the danger of her demise close to her door she quickly attempts to be something she is not. She empathizes with him and tries to relate to him. Altogether, this approaches to no benefit if whatever it provokes him, in which it tosses a shift in his thoughts and he responds, simply the way he recognizes how too, by shooting her on the upper body and puts his problem to a finish.
In acting like somebody she was not and being self-centered to herself she took her personal demise upon herself. On the other hand, The Misfit, considers he has done nothing immoral and that the wrong has been done to him that civilization was at fault, not him. He thinks ever since he was born, he has been on the down side and the put down, from his dad to all of humanity, but he sees himself as no superior being as everybody also does. He is so sympathetic to everybody even though he guides them one by one to their demises. He thinks he has certainly not done anything to earn being place into prison, that he was yet again ensured wrong.