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 fa?â?ºade. "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...
of all three Divine Spirits. The Misfit transforms the grandmother into a childlike state in death illustrating his beliefs that he has given her a fresh start or rebirth, as Jesus did.

The religious interpretation of this story is the focal point of O'Connor's faith in the Catholic religion. The constant emphasis on Christ, prayer, and devoted Southern Christianity is an excellent illustration of her concerns for people and religion. She believed that Christ was no longer a priority to the people of her generation, and the values and directions of the youth were heading down the wrong path.