In "A Good Man is Hard to Find," who is the most morally responsible for the six deaths of this family? Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to...

Within the
framework of O'Connor's Christian concept of "grace," that a divine pardon is granted
by God simply for the asking, the Misfit must be the one held morally responsible for the
killing of the six family members. For, it is the petty, selfish, and forgetful grandmother who
attains grace at the end of "A Good Man is Hard to Find" as, at the moment of her
death, she reaches out to the Misfit exclaiming, "Why, you're one of my
children."

In the context of O'Connor's narratives, grace is something
often undeserved, a force outside of the character that generates an epiphany.  The grandmother
has such an epiphany and receives grace as her spiritual blindness is removed.