hus sealing her families doom.. After The Misfit tells her that it would have been better off for all of them if she didnt recognize him she has a complete change in attitude. She goes from disagreeing with everything to complimenting everything and trying to convince the Misfit not to shoot her. The ironic thing here is the I the grandmother still cares not for her family, only wanting to save herself. As the rest of the family gets taken off and shot Grandmother pleads and bargains with The Misfit. This plea-bargaining draws to a climax when the Grandmother says Why, your one of my babies. Youre one of my own children! She reached out and touched him on the shoulder.(218) This stirs something in the misfit and he snaps back and shoots her.The irony at the end of this story is very interesting. O Connor forces the reader to wonder which characters are Good Men, perhaps by the end of the story she is trying to convey two points: first, that a discerning Good Man can be very difficult, second that a manipulative, self centered, and hollow character: The Grandmother is a devastating way to be, both for a person individually and for everyone else around them. The reader is at least left wondering if some or all of the clues to irony I provided apply in some way to the outcome of this story....
