His beliefs and actions are not intentionally good, but they are strongly stated and acted out in a meaningful convention that the grandmother lacks in her character. The misfit’s way may not be morally right, but his actions are consistent throughout the story. The grandmother tries to judge his character by stating “I know you’re a good man. You don’t look a bit like you have common blood. I know you must come from nice people” (O’Connor, page 147). But what the grandmother lacks is what the misfit has, a strong sense of character with a mindset that has already been questioned by himself. He has already considered his actions and sealed his fate by taking his hard life learned lessons. And by doing so, he renamed himself the misfit. This was chosen said the misfit “because I can’t make what all I done wrong fit what all I gone through in punishment” (O’Connor, page 151). Even though he does not remember what the crime he committed was, that landed him in jail. He noted “It was a head doctor at the penitentiary said what I had done was kill my daddy but I known that for a lie” (O’Connor, page 149). He knows he is not a good man, but he is also aware that there are far worse people than him. He forms a philosophy of himself, that is “no pleasure, but meanness” (O’Connor, page
His beliefs and actions are not intentionally good, but they are strongly stated and acted out in a meaningful convention that the grandmother lacks in her character. The misfit’s way may not be morally right, but his actions are consistent throughout the story. The grandmother tries to judge his character by stating “I know you’re a good man. You don’t look a bit like you have common blood. I know you must come from nice people” (O’Connor, page 147). But what the grandmother lacks is what the misfit has, a strong sense of character with a mindset that has already been questioned by himself. He has already considered his actions and sealed his fate by taking his hard life learned lessons. And by doing so, he renamed himself the misfit. This was chosen said the misfit “because I can’t make what all I done wrong fit what all I gone through in punishment” (O’Connor, page 151). Even though he does not remember what the crime he committed was, that landed him in jail. He noted “It was a head doctor at the penitentiary said what I had done was kill my daddy but I known that for a lie” (O’Connor, page 149). He knows he is not a good man, but he is also aware that there are far worse people than him. He forms a philosophy of himself, that is “no pleasure, but meanness” (O’Connor, page