A Reflection on "A Good Man is Hard to Find" by Flannery O'Connor

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As the story progresses I felt tense and, latter, "horror" sensing the coldness in the Misfit and the family final destiny. The last sentence of this short story confused me. I didn't understand what he meant when he said that " she would have been a good woman if everyone had been there to shoot her every minute of her life...
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As the story progresses I felt tense and, latter, "horror" sensing the coldness in the Misfit and the family final destiny. The last sentence of this short story confused me. I didn't understand what he meant when he said that " she would have been a good woman if everyone had been there to shoot her every minute of her life...
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