It seems possible to me
that the Misfit kills the grandmother last because she is actually giving him an opportunity to
explain his life to someone. No one seems to have been interested in his professions of
innocence up till now, and the interaction with her provides him with the chance to really give
voice to the injustice done to himinjustice that, according to him, caused him to become the
criminal he is now. He claims that no one could ever show him the proof of the crimes of which
he was initially, wrongfully, accused. He says,
"That's why I sign myself now. I said long ago, you get you a signature and sign
everything you do and keep a copy of it. Then you'll know what you done and you can hold up the
crime to the punishment and see do they match and in the end you'll have something to prove you
ain't been treated right. I call myself The Misfit . . . because I can't make what all I done
wrong fit what all I gone through in punishment."
Even though the grandmother's interest in...
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