The Misfit Toy

Michael NunnoMs. PiscopoEnglish Pd.423 April 2018The Misfit ToyIn Flannery OConnors short story, A Good Man is unwaveringly to Find, a twisted twist know only as The Misfit captures a family of four and a nanna that he runs into during his escape. As he proceeds to execute each family member, he breaks shore the grandmothers weak example code.Why does OConnor use such a automobilemine character? OConnor uses The Misfits twisted plainly unbreakable chaste code to smash the grandmothers incorrupt weakness and hypocrisy.One of the first instances we see of the nannas example weakness is when she refrains from admitting gap for giving false information about the location of a grove kinfolk.As the text states The horrible thought she had had before the accident was that the tin she had regained so vividly was not in Georgia remedy in Tennessee. After this quote the grandmother says nothing about how she was wrong, only if alternatively, later her false information an d her crazy cat causing a car crash, she curls up under the dashboard and hopes that she is hurt so that she washbowl parry conflict with her son.Clearly here she is showing cowardice and a refusal of egotism introspection. The grandmother does not want to admit that she is wrong, and in fact all the same hopes she is injured so she will receive pity from her family.After the car crashes, the stray family is met by three unknown cosmospower. The grandmother eventually notices that the group of men is led by the notorious twist, the Misfit.The grandmother, out of fear begins to see the Misfit a good objet dart, after he says he would hate to shoot a lady, and p demonstrates his parents, showing her moral weakness as she calls a wanted criminal good. You wouldnt shoot a lady, would you?I know youre a good manI know you must come from nice peopleyou shouldnt call yourself the misfit because I know youre a good man at heart.In this quote, the grandmother is siding with an evil man out of fear. Before this mail service the grandmother says I wouldnt take my children in any direction with a criminal wish well that aloose in it. I couldnt answer to my conscience if I did. In a difficult situation, the grandmother is seen breaking away from her moral ideals and siding with whatever is convenient to protect herself ess eat upially.This thusly would show the grandmas moral shortcomings, if she is willing to twist her impressions or throw them out altogether fairish to get out of a bad situation.Unlike the grandmother who seems to be sensitised to introspection, the Misfit finds personal definition by what he has done wrong.As the Misfit says, Nome, I aint a good man further I aint the worst in the world neitherI found out the crime dont matter. You hind end do one thing or you lot do another, slaughter a man or take a tire rack up his carI call myself the Misfit, because I cant make what all I done wrong fit with all I gone by dint of in punishment .The Misfit is saying that he knows he is not the best man in the world, however he is not the worst either. Therefore, even though he is a bad man, he is not averse to goodness you can see this in his polite gesture to the naan in which he apologizes for being in inappropriate attire Im sorry I dont have on a shirt before you ladies He past goes on in the quote to define himself by the seemingly cheating(prenominal) punishment he received for something he does not remember doing and because of that, he goes on to commit crimes that do deserve punishment.Another instance in which the Misfits unbreakable moral code shows the weakness of the Grandmother is when he recollects why he was put in prison house in which he states I never was a bad boy that I remember ofbut somewhere along the line I done something wrong and got sent to the penitentiaryI forgot what I done, lady.I set there toilsome to remember what it was I done and I aint recalled it to this day. He does not remember why he was put in prison, and later blatantly denies that he killed his father, recollecting perfectly that his father died in 1919 from the flu and his grave is at Hopewell Baptist churchyard.The Grandmother then tries to tell the Misfit that maybe the state made a mistake, but the Misfit will not have it, NomeThey had the papers on me. The Misfit does not heading why he was put in prison, nor does he hold a grudge against it because he knows he did something, after all, They had the papers, on him.This kind of moral strength, to be able to accept being put in prison even though he forgot what he did is a complete frustrate to the Grandmother whose weakness is shown in her sympathizing for the Misfit, trying to say that the Misfit was falsely detain even though in the beginning of the story she saw him as an escaped convict.By the end, it becomes apparent that the Grandmother is morally weak. She tries time and time again to get on the Misfits good side to stay alive instead of trying to save her family.The Misfit operates under his self-proclaimed moral code of meanness that he never breaks away from throughout the story, killing the entire family two by two. As the Misfit says If Jesus did what He said, then its nothing for you to do now but throw away e genuinelything and follow him, and if He didnt, then its nothing for you to do but please the few minutes you got left the best you can by killing somebody or burning down his house or doing some other meanness to him.No pleasure but meanness. The Grandmother then says, Maybe he didnt raise the dead. Clearly here, the Misfit has gotten to the Grandmother to the point that she is willing to give up her faith just to save her own life.The Misfit then says that neither of them knows if Jesus did or did not raise the dead but if I had been there I would of known and I wouldnt be like I am now. OConnor then describes him as if he was ready to break down crying.It is clear that the Misfit wants to be sure o f the truth, that he is not happy to be on the path that he is on, but he is on it, and he does not plan to go against the beliefs that he holds. This shows extreme moral strength on the Misfits part. He does not enjoy what he is or what he believes, but he knows who he is and he believes what he believes is true even though he does not like it. This is in stark contrast with the Grandmother who believes whatever is convenient for her.It then becomes clear here that the Misfit is a contrast to the Grandmother he sticks by a moral code that causes him suffering and brings legal trouble to him, magic spell the Grandmother floats around and sticks to certain moral attributes that will help her bar conflict in the short-term.To further the claim that the Grandmother is weak, the Misfit says at the end of the story that the Grandmother would have been a good woman if soul was there to shoot her every minute of her life.Here, the Misfit is saying that the Grandmothers entire belief sy stem changed when a gun was held up to her. She was morally weak and the world she lived in allowed her to be so. If the Grandmother had to deal with true hardship in her life, maybe she would have been morally strong.Finally, when Bobby Lee, one of the Misfits partners in crime declares that nip at someone their whole life would be, Some fun The Misfits reception is that, Its no real pleasure in life. The Misfit sticks to his moral code to the very end. Its not fun to shoot at people, its not fun to be shot, the world is not fun, and according to the Misfit, there is no fun, there is no real pleasure in life.Some might say the Grandmother shows greater moral strength than the Misfit by humanizing him after all he does by calling him, one of my own children While it may be true she shows almost Christly love to an evil man, it does not necessarily show her moral strength, and in fact, the opposite may be the case.The grandmother in the beginning of the story sees the Misfit as a vicious criminal on the loose. However, now when she sees vulnerability in the Misfit, she tries to exploit it and show word sense and love to one that only knows meanness. The Grandmother is not showing moral strength, but changing her moral beliefs and ideals once again to save herself, to no avail, as the Misfit quickly jumps back and shoots her three times before she can exploit his moment of weakness.Therefore, in conclusion, the Misfits character serves as a foil to the grandmother to pull away the veil of faux holiness that she lives with and peril her hypocrisy and corruption. Although the Misfit is tortured by his moral code, he follows it anyway because he believes it is true, unlike the Grandmother who agrees with everything he says and tries to pander to his ideas, completely throwing her previous moral code out the window.?Works CitedOConnor, Flannery. A Good Man Is Hard to Find. Faber Faber, 2016.