riner's blessing the sea creatures and consequent lifting of the curse. As if she was cleansing his soul as God would after the sacrament of reconciliation.The reference though, of grandmother being the Christ-like character of the story is most pertinent in the last scene. It is mentioned that her legs were crossed as she fell dead into the ditch after being shot. As to signify the cross that Jesus died on for his people. (Currie 223) I believe that the whole scene is parallel to the scene in the garden between Jesus and Judas. The grandmother reaching to the Misfit and calling him one of her own, same as Judas was one of Jesus's own. And touching him on the shoulder, just as Jesus did to forgive Judas for what he has done and is going to do. The family is in reference to the disciples. No matter what it the acions were, they followed grandmother, the Christ-like figure. They also were oppressed, but by death, in a way as the disciples were for following Christ.At the conclusion the reader is left with a vision of destruction of human life both literal and figurative that is absurd rather than tragic because the victims are not heroic figures reduced to misfortune, They are ordinary characters who meet a grotesque fate. (Shenck 222)...
