Grace is defined as, in a Christian belief, the free and unmerited favor of God. Flannery O’Connor uses certain moments and characters throughout the story intended to show grace as it is offered to certain characters. In “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” I argue that the author, Flannery O’Connor specifically uses grace as a theme in order to show how tragedy and death was a result of her own selfish actions, and then the changes that occurred giving the grandmother grace. The grandmother is a big character and plays a huge role in the story. Her character isn’t the best. She lies, she’s manipulative, selfish, judgemental, and, above all, a hypocrite. She depicts herself as being a lady and tries to hold herself that way, but is constantly contradicting herself. “Aren’t you ashamed,” the grandmother asks her niece June Star after she rudely insults Red Sam, owner of Red Sammy’s Barbeque" (Lauter 2570). She goes on to apologize to Red Sam and makes a comment about how people these days aren’t as nice as they use to be. The grandmother clearly knows right from wrong and tried to tell June Star that what she said was not okay. However, the grandmother clearly experiences no personal dishonor at all when she states, “Oh look at the cute little pickaninny! Wouldn’t that make a picture, now?...Little niggers in the country don’t have things like we do. If I could paint, I’d paint that picture,” (Lauter 2570). Every little thing she does, every action she does is selfish with an ulterior motive for getting her own way, and it doesn't matter who she has to manipulate in order to do that. For example, when they are on their way to Florida the grandmother asks to stop by a house she had known long ago. When Bailey, her son, says no she goes on to get the children involved. She describes a hidden treasure in a secret panel in the house, and because of that the children threw a tantrum until Bailey changed his mind.