Journal for "A Good Man is Hard to Find"

The reading for today is  "A Good man is Hard to Find" by Flannery O'Connor. To begin, I do not condone violence, especially the type shown in this story, but there was just something about the character of the Misfit that made me unable to dislike him for what he does to the family. In a strange way I felrt as though the family, while not deserving to be killed, was in some way not better people than the Misfit just because they were not killers like he was. The way that O'Connor actually drew my attention away from the happenings in the story is a clever bit of writing, because it made me focus on the formality of each character in such a trying and horrific moment.