A seemingly religious and moral woman, Granny is not without her flaws. In Short Stories for Students, Kathleen Wilson describes the grandmother as selfish and intrusive, writing "...her desire to see a childhood home results in the death of the family at the end of the story." Wilson argues that "his religious epiphany at the end of the story provides the philosophical drive behind the narrative." (Wilson 100). Calling her the heroine of the story, O'Connor says that “…grandmother is in the most significant position that life offers a Christian. She's facing death... like all of us, she's not very well prepared for it." O'Connor goes on to say that Grandma is actually evil. Calling her a "witch," she says "...that morally the Misfit is far superior to the Grandma” (O'Connor