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Flannery O’Connor uses Christianity as a fundamental thesis in her work, “A Good Man is Hard to Find.” The exploration for the meaning of the Christian faith in the story is based on O’Connor’s view that contemporary society was drastically changing for the worst. O’Connor, a fundamentalist and a Christian moralist focuses her powerful apocalyptic fiction on the South. O’Connor views the lifestyles of the “elite” Southern people to be a façade. “A Good man is Hard to Find” focuses on Christianity being filled with sin and punishment, good and evil, belief and unbelief. The grandmother fully tells her opinion as she tries to convince the Misfit that he is a good Christian man before he kills her. The meaning of religion and true personification enlightens the characters when faced with reality. In “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” the grandmother is representative of godliness and Christianity which O’Connor apparently believed to be more hypocritical than prevalent in the “traditional” Old South, “…the grandmother had on a navy blue straw sailor