A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O’Connor.

Though the story begins innocently enough, O'Connor introduces the character of the Misfit, an escaped murderer who kills the entire family at the end of the story.
At the initial meeting of the Misfit and the Grandmother, it was easy to right away see the Misfit as the bad guy and the grandmother as the innocent party. But from the religious perspective, their positions can be equated. The grandmother is selfish, as the story illustrates from the beginning, and the misfit is a criminal who takes pleasure in killing, both of them are in some way serving their own causes, and portraying self-love. Both of them bring these selfish desires into the closing dialogue of the story. The misfit is out to kill and the grandmother is out to save herself.The misfit is out to kill and the grandmother is out to save herself. She begins to tell the misfit who she hasn?t met until that moment that he is good man, thereby attempting to save herself. And the misfit is determined to do what he came to do.