In "A Good Man is Hard to Find" you are led to believe that Grandma is a good and moral person while the Misfit is the opposite, bad and evil. These assumptions are quickly demolished when comparing La Nonna and Lo Spostato side by side. We see that Grandma is self-centered, dishonest, and racist, but The Misfit is honest and nonjudgmental and sees himself as some sort of savior. While both characters can be seen as evil, in “A Good Man is Hard to Find” the grandmother causes more damage than The Misfit. Right at the beginning of the story the grandmother shows her selfish ways. He is trying to convince his son Baily, with whom he lives, to vacation wherever he wants, in Tennessee, instead of Florida. O'Connor stated, "Grandma didn't want to go to Florida, she wanted to visit some of her contacts in East Tennessee and was taking every opportunity to change Baily's mind" (202). The grandmother further shows her selfishness when she tells the family a story about a house she once visited in the neighborhood. He knew that Baily wouldn't want to waste time stopping at an old house, so he makes up a story about the house having a secret panel that contains all of the family's silver, causing the children to start tormenting Baily until he finally gives in and takes them. to the house We can also see her being selfish after the family runs into The Misfit. He continually begs for his life without ever mentioning the lives of his children or grandchildren. While Grandma knows she is selfish and manipulates people for her own personal gain, The Misfit doesn't do bad things for himself. He believes he is a savior for society. The Misfit thinks he has been wrongly convicted and pledges… midway through the paper… “‘You wouldn't shoot a woman, would you'” (O'Connor 208)? To which The Misfit nervously responds, “'I'd hate to have to do that'” (O'Connor 208). At the beginning of the story we are led to believe that the grandmother is morally superior to the other characters in the story, especially The Misfit. What we are led to believe is an evil criminal, but in reality things are reversed. The Grandmother ranks lower on the moral scale than the Misfit. She looks judiciously at other people but never turns that gaze on herself. She believes it until the end of the story, right before she is killed. Even though the Misfit commits horrendous crimes, he still admits that he is not a good man. Works Cited O'Connor, Flannery. "A good man is hard to find." Literature: reading fiction, poetry and theatre. Ed. Robert Di Yanni. 6th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2009. 202-212. Press.