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Summary and Critique of Two Articles on O’Connor’s A Good Man is Hard to Find The article Flannery O’Connor’s A Good Man is Hard to Find: The Moment of Grace by Michael Clark focuses on the climax of the story: the Grandmother’s final act, her touching of the misfit, and its religious and realistic implications. Clark questions her last gesture by asking, “Should the Grandmother’s final act-- her touching …showed first 75 words of 1466 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1466 total…actions. I also think Sloan makes a strong point in saying that the grandmother’s humane final plea was starting to get to the Misfit, and the shooting of her was a recoil, a horror at her humaneness. Finally, although I don’t think the grandmother’s epiphany was a sincere religious, grace filled occurrence, I do agree that the Misfit was the catalyst for the climax of the story, the grandmother’s final act.