Flannery O’Connor in his “a good man is hard” to find scoops out the best ideas describing

the judgmental nature of humans that cause them to eat their own words later. This is best
described using the character of the grandmother. In the beginning of the story, the
grandmother chews the misfit out calling him a bad character, a criminal. The sentence in
the first paragraph “I wouldn’t take my children in any direction with a criminal like that a
loose in it.” gives the sensation of her caretaking nature that she would never let anything
bad happen to her family.
Over the course of the story, the author tries to pinpoint the beliefs of the grandmother
stating what she viewed as good and bad. She is against her grandchildren being rude or
manipulative, however, she herself is when she asked his son bailey to turf off to the road
that headed to the house she wanted to see. There are instances where we see her being
selfish- a quality she despises and says that the people in older ages didn’t possess. She acts
indifferent on realization that her idea to go see the house was a result of her
misremembrance. When she is faced by the misfit, she tries to persuade him that she’s a
candidate he is not supposed to kill because she doesn’t think of him as a bad person like
the others. Her efforts to convince the misfit that he was a good man is in complete contrast
with what she had stated in the beginning of the story saying that she wouldn’t let her
children go around such a vicious man. However, when the real time comes, and her son, his
wife and her grandchildren are taken away, she does nothing more than still trying to
convince the misfit that he is a good man and should not do what he plans on doing.
In the overall passage, the grandmother is seen teaching people around her on what’s good
and bad. The roll of her eyes, her manipulative ideas and her attempts on pursuing the
misfit altogether conclude that she was just another character who looks at world with their
own eyes imposing their opinions on others and looking down on everyone else. Most
humans are like that, I agree. Therefore, it’s sufficiently necessary to look beyond our sight
and have the sieve of acceptance through which we could filter other’s opinions instead of
directly disregarding them. Nothing in this world has completely been black or white and
even if it was to some extent, who do we think we are to tell what’s what. We, as the most
scholarly species on the earth are here to explain our existence and not question people’s.
Thus, the moral of the story is the one who gets back on their own word, destiny and fate
goes back on them.