![]() ![]() The Grandmother was transformed by this violent ending, and the Misfit, too, may have been changed in some small way by the Grandmother’s moment of grace. Here, finally, is a definition of goodness that even the Misfit will admit the reality of-the Grandmother’s brief moment of true “goodness” in reaching out to the Misfit in love. As the Misfit says, having someone “there to shoot her” has made her into a “good woman” (that is, violence has brought her to a moment of grace). Yet she achieved a kind of redemption in the moment of her death. The Grandmother’s body may never even be found, so she cannot depend on being identified as a “proper lady” as she had hoped-and her hat was destroyed anyway. After the “moment of grace,” O’Connor ends with the Misfit and his followers alone in their harsh, nihilistic world.
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