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The Grandmother's Meeting With The Misfit

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O’Connor’s view, the grandmother’s meeting with The Misfit grants her with the final assessment and the chance that people can face her death, also, comes through the agency of an apparently free and unfathomable evil. Her ability to receive such a death is therefore the final test of her faith. That the grandmother at the minute of death truly clinches the Christian secret is her great achievement. In Christian terms, such a instant is always a talent, it is one for which the receiver has organized during the course of her life. The grandmother’s most important quality is so not her meddlesomeness or her arrogance, of which there has been substantial evidence through the story, but her motherly concern, and it is through this motherly love

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