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Conflicts of Faith and Evil in Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find" Flannery O' Connor "A Good Man is Hard to Find" - summary The story is about a family, grandmother, father, mother, two children and a baby, that are being murdered by a psychopathic killer and his henchman. The family, living in Atlanta, planned to go on vacation. On their way to Florida the grandmother and the two children, June-Star and …

…without any emotional movement. But finally The Misfit goes diabolically whole-hog in the very presence of grace. When the grandmother, in terrified and idiotic confusion reaches out and touches him on the shoulder, murming, "Why, you're one of my babies. You're one of my own children," he springs back "as if a snake had bitten him" and shoots her three times through the chest, ...". He remains a rather grand Satan to the very end. 1136 words