Two people of separate interests and even of different eras can meet the same unjust fate, yet lead totally different lives. The following will closely scrutinize the characters of Peyton Farquhar from ‘An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge’ and the Grandmother from ‘A Goodman is Hard to Find’. Before the fate of these characters can be discussed it must be understood what their two very defined roles in the stories were. Peyton Farquhar was the …showed first 75 words of 761 total…

…showed last 75 words of 761 total…of her life.”(p. 645) She in a sense paid for her fast-talking and selfishness, but the Grandmother doesn’t deserve death. In closing, this essay tried to shed some light on two very different characters, which in all the same ways were different, end up the same. Death that is delivered cares not how good of a person you are, it is simply a deed to be carried out, for the betterment of the assassin.