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"A exhaustively military man is Hard to Find" The Grandmothers Grace     Flannery OConnors "A Good Man is Hard to Find" tells the metaphorical tale of a familys fatal opponent with The Misfit, an escaped serial killer. The incidents and voices throughout the story are aspects of a spot intending to symbolize the spiritual grace passed from one human to another, without regard for generosity or evil. The prominent character in OConnors story is the grandmother, who embodies this grace. By including imperfections in the development of the grandmothers character, OConnor shows the indiscriminatory property of grace she possesses.     The grandmother is the most developed character of the story. She contains several traits that coincide with the stereotypical elderly southern woman. Some of her notions are bizarre and trivial, and ignored by her family, such as the possible ack-ack by The Misfit, a trip to Tennessee instead of Florida, and a fear of feline asphyxiation. John Wesley and June Star have little if any respect for their paternal grandmother. "She has to go everywhere we go," whines June Star (194). The grandmother also dresses immaculately, even for a car trip, simply because in an accident "anyone seeing her dead on the highway would know at once that she was a lady" (194). She calls direction to pointless details such as mileage, the speed of the car, and scenic road-side attr...