d nobodies. The evil deeds that they do are just unthought acts. They seem to be a dog that runs off with his masters steak as it accidently hits the kitchen floor. They instinctively kill the family because the Misfit told them to. Since these henchmen are moral morons, the moral evil of the families death is much less than the grandmothers. Sure the physical effect is the same, but morally grandmother's death is more wrong. The two henchmen are incapable of committing a sin because of the moral ignorance. (Currie 225)After the whole family has been took away to the woods grandmother and the Misfit are left at the roadside. This leads to the climax of the story. The stand off between the almighty good in this story and the almighty evil. "The Misfit and the grandmother are contrary aspects of the same problem." (Currie 223) Not only is this the climax of the story but is also the climax of the grandmother's fictionist ways throughout the story. The Misfit doesn't accept these lies that the grandmother throws out. He realizes that there is no reality behind her words. Something that would have saved the family if Bailey was smart enough to realize this also. There are many different aspects that are perceived from this final confrontation. At the very climax of the story grandmother has fallen into the ditch that the car had wrecked into, and is reaching to the misfit calling him one of her own. Either here she has lost touch of reality and confuses the misfit with her son Bailey, because the misfit is wearing Baileys tropical shirt, or maybe she has uttered her final fantasy. Either way she is "attempting a last ingratiating appeal for sympathies." (Shenck 222) The Misfit reacts to this final effort for mercy by shooting her three times in the chest.When grandmother touches the Misfit on the shoulder and tells him that he is one of her babies, one of her own, critics take her act as the same kind as the Ancient Ma...
