<P> It is also pointed out that by the time the grandmother touches the Misfit, proclaiming he is her son, he is wearing Bailey's shirt . Other opinions include that it is contradictory of her character or that she was simply again trying to save herself and that her selfishness was never overcome throughout the story . </P> <P> Not every interpretation hinges on a moral judgment of the grandmother, though . For example, Alex Link considers how, until the family encounters the Misfit, the South is mainly something to ignore, forget, package in a movie or a monument, or remember with distorted nostalgia, such that the Misfit comes to stand for the persistence of what cannot be bought, sold, or wholly understood, such as death, grace, and "the South ." </P> <P> O'Connor utilized the dark and morose in her writing to reveal beauty and grace . In the story, violence reveals divine grace . Divine grace, or God's unmerited favor, is a concept fundamental to man's salvation in Christian theology . Christians believe the imperfect can be reborn spiritually, i.e. people can be saved by grace through Jesus Christ . While the two seem to be different, the grandmother and the Misfit both are the same at their core: sinners in need of grace . Abbie Harris says in her short article "The Misfit is blatantly sinful and enraged at the concept of God's grace, and the Grandma masks her sinfulness with respectability and chooses to treat God as something that she can accept or ignore depending on her situation". </P> <P> From the beginning of the story, the grandmother repeatedly sins and uses God when it is convenient for her, a common practice of many southern Christians in O'Connor's time . The sins she commits throughout the story create her as a severely flawed individual in need of saving . Only at her death does she realize her faults . After he shoots her, the Misfit claims "she would have been a good woman, if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life ." O'Connor includes this line because she is not trying to convey the message that if someone has a traumatic experience, their life will be changed . She instead conveys a message of the sinful nature of humans; these experiences people may go through do not stick . The grandmother's life would have to be threatened everyday for her to become a good person . </P>

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