The Lion's Pride vol. 2 (Jun. 2014) | Page 63

56 War II. I can tell O’Connor showed us the reality of people who lost their faith and failed to carry on a tradition to the young generation in the 1950’s of the U.S. A grandmother seemed to be an ordinary law-abiding citizen with a sense of justice at first; however, O’Connor described the grandmother as a person who looked “good” instead of being “good.” Although the grandmother believed she was “good”, as the story goes we see the grandmother was not “good” as much as she thought. For example, the grandmother was self-centered because she tried to control her family and wanted to make everything her own w