Which underlying theme of Flannery O'Conner's "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" are these lines most closely related to?
She reached out and touched him on the shoulder. The Misfit sprang back as if a snake had bitten him and shot her three times through the chest. Then he put his gun down on the ground and took off his glasses and began to clean them.

the undeserving recipients of grace

the obscure description of a "good man"

man's struggle against loneliness

the coexistence of good and evil

Question

Which underlying theme of Flannery O'Conner's "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" are these lines most closely related to?
She reached out and touched him on the shoulder. The Misfit sprang back as if a snake had bitten him and shot her three times through the chest. Then he put his gun down on the ground and took off his glasses and began to clean them.

the undeserving recipients of grace

the obscure description of a "good man"

man's struggle against loneliness

the coexistence of good and evil

anonymous · Answer

i think its the coexistence of good and evil

anonymous · Answer

i know its not man's struggle against loneliness

anonymous · Answer

ummm well I wouldn't say its grace because she just touched him on the shoulder and well the character didn't do anything considerably good there because she didn't do anything to deserve it and we don't really know if the girl was good but the boy definitely had an evil side to him... and i'm thinking since she reached out to him by touching him on the shoulder and is reaction was to jump back and shoot her that maybe its a struggle against loneliness but given the title of this story it good be good versus evil in the way that it takes a good heart to reach out to someone and an evil one to kill a person because of it.

anonymous · Answer

i think you might be right