Why does the grandmother in the story tell The Misfit that he is a good man? Is there any sense in which he is a good man?

In an attempt to
save her life, the grandmother
pays The Misfit the highest compliments she can think of. Since
she is a
woman who embodies old southern values and prejudices it makes sense that
she would
tell him that he is a "good man" and "not a bit

common."

The grandmother, however, begins to change as she gets
more
desperate. She begins to call out to Jesus in earnest, though it sounds
"as if she might be
cursing." Finally, when The Misfit looks like he might
cry, the "grandmother's head
clear[s] for an instant and she says, "Why
you're one of my babies. You're one of my own
children!" and reaches out to
touch him. At that instant he shoots her dead.

Though The
Misfit is clearly evil, he does bring about a positive change in
the
grandmother before he dies. The shock and fear she feels makes her forget her
snobbishness
and look at him with compassion. For a moment, she sees The
Misfit as Jesus himself would have.

The Misfit recognizes
that the crisis brought out the best in the old woman.
He acknowledges that
"She would of been a good woman . . . if it had been somebody there to
shoot
her every minute of her life."