crime punishment
In addition, it is quite clear Misfit believe that incase by any chance one commits crime punishment is always there. “I found out the crime don’t matter. You can do one thing or you can do another, kill a man or take a tire off his car, because sooner or later you’re going to forget what it was you done and just be punished for it.” Misfit clearly points out the lesson he has learned from his words that regardless of what the crime, small or large, the punishment will not differ even if one never recalls what one did hence the idea alludes to the Christian belief in original sin, misfit suggest that humans forget their crime, nonetheless are punished yet. Here Misfit is recognized by his grandmother as one of her own children. However, as she has always believed she isn’t morally superior and instead both are struggling to figure out on how to eradicate the difficult of the Christian faith on their own.
Misfit really understand what his grandmother has gone through in his final moment. “She would have been a good woman………if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life.” He recognizes two things about her grandmother. First, his grandmother is indeed not a good woman despite her obvious belief in her moral superiority which she bears through her self-proclaimed identification as a religious instruction. Contrary to that, she is weak and flawed, however, his age does not grant her any particular rights for reverence or respect. In addition, the Misfit recognizes his grandmother’s capacity to be a good woman once facing death which is evidently witnessed in her final moments by embracing her and the Misfit’s common humanity hence foregoing the moral high ground she’d staunchly hold. By observing and realizing this shift, Misfit concludes that if her grandmother could have lived her life at a gunpoint for sure, so to speak, she could then have gained the compassion and self-awareness that she’d lacked.