Towards the end of the story the grandmother finds herself staring down the barrel of a gun held by a notorious assassin called the Misfit. It is in these final moments where he shows true humility and selfless, unusual behavior towards his killer and his stories. In the last paragraphs of the story the grandmother exclaims how the misfit could have been one of her own children and that he was a good man of good people. These statements show an abandonment of the grandmother's past feelings of superiority and immaculate righteousness, towards a more realistic sense of equivalence and forgiveness. Some writers even argue that it is precisely at this moment that the grandmother discovers the true faith of the Christian savior Jesus. According to Arthur E. Bethea "A good man is hard to find" implies a transfer of grace from God to the grandmother, and the role of the grandmother is of bringer of grace" (Bethea 247). This statement by the author details how the grandmother's actions towards the misfit and the change in her personality ultimately symbolized the acquisition of grace for the