In Flannery O'Connor's short story, A Good Man is Hard to Find, a family gets into a car accident on a deserted dirt road. Unfortunately for them, they are found by a group of three escaped convicts, led by a man who calls himself The Misfit. These inmates systematically execute the family two by two while the Misfit talks to the grandmother. Although the catalyst for this execution is the grandmother's verbal recognition of the Misfit as an escaped criminal, it is clear that he commits his crimes for deeper reasons. The Misfit is angry on a fundamental level, and expressing this anger is the closest thing to experiencing pleasure in this life. The story is told from the limited third-person point of view, meaning that the reader sees the story through the eyes and perspective of a “point of view character.” In these cases, this character acts as a filter, and while we can see the character's internal thoughts and motivations from the point of view, we can only see the other characters' behaviors through his or her eyes. In A Good Man is Hard to Find “the grandmother” is the point of view character. This perspective is clear from the opening sentence: “Grandma didn't want to go to Florida. He wanted to visit some of his contacts in East Tennessee and was taking every opportunity to change Bailey's mind. Here we are aware of the character's desire: what he wants. However, we are unable to see any of the other characters' thoughts or desires throughout the story. This limited point of view is vital to the experience of the story. When her family is later killed in the woods out of sight, we feel the same confused emotions as Grandma, not wanting to believe that these horrible acts are… middle of paper… societies with imperfect justice. In many ways, The Misfit is reminiscent of John Milton's Lucifer in Paradise Lost. A devout Catholic, Flannery O'Connor probably had this character in mind when she wrote her villain in this story. Milton's Lucifer is also intelligent and feels betrayed by his God. It is his imperfect sense of justice that leads him to strive to do only the opposite of God's law: let evil be his good. It seems very similar to The Misfit. The Misfit transmits pain to the world because the world has transmitted pain to him. This is all he could expect from life and he wants to teach everyone else the same lesson. Doing so does not give him pleasure, does not make him happy and does not compensate for the suffering he has already received. It just relieves some sort of pressure, briefly. She reassures him that no other world is possible.