“She would have been a good woman if there had been someone there to shoot her every minute of her life.” Flannery O'Connor's depiction of the Christian faith can be seen in almost all of her works. Inevitably, the plots of all O'Connor's stories end with a shocking conclusion, and this leaves the reader free to interpret the central idea. From the endless list of themes that O'Connor incorporates into his stories, "A Good Man Is Hard To Find" is largely influenced by the idea of ​​divine grace, hypocrisy, and white supremacy. The sentiment of white supremacy can be seen repeatedly in O'Connor's writing, including in his short story "A Good Man is Hard to Find." While there is no direct racism depicted in the story, a variety of scenes call into question the ambiguous remarks made by the grandmother. The nostalgic elements of her genteel past, such as the abandoned mansions and plantations that were once owned by whites, show how difficult it is for the grandmother to cope with the world she lives in now (Enjolras 37). These symbols remind her of the South she enjoyed as a child, when whites had a strong sense of identity and the right to rule over blacks (Enjolras 37). Now it is part of a racially charged South, where oppressed African Americans are improving their lifestyles and living among whites. This is not the only instance where racial roles play a significant role in his life. When she sees the little black girl in the countryside during the trip and boldly calls her "pickaninny", she seems to consider the little girl some kind of animal because she is so different from her, revealing that she has never experienced poverty and misfortune as African Americans did during the her childhood...... half of the sheet ......heather, 1998. Print.The author tells, as the title suggests, the different characters in the story. The author presents facts about O'Connor's life that may have been the cause of all the characteristics, behaviors, and beliefs of the characters in her works. For example, the author states that most of the characters have something physically grotesque about them and this is seen as a continuing pattern in Flannery O'Connor's writing, and may be due to the fact that she lived in forced isolation while she was in Milledgeville, Georgia. There are many excerpts in the book that talk about "A good man is hard to find" in relation to the misfit and the grandmother, such as their presumptuous hypocrisy, which will help me develop my argument. So I intend to use some of these excerpts as evidence of my view of the grandmother as the true antagonist of the story.