I was pretty confused throughout most of this story. I found it a little hard to follow at some points. I think this may have to do with the style the dialogue was written in. It seemed like the characters were written with an accent.
That being said, I really liked the story. I think it points out a lot of flaws that are common in older ways of thinking. The grandmother was telling The Misfit that she believed that he came from a good family, so therefore he must be good. This isn't the case, and we discover that the grandmother saying this was completely ironic, because she was his mother.
The grandmother also told The Misfit to pray to Jesus because that would somehow make him a good person. I don't think that religion has the power to all of the sudden stop someone from brutally murdering innocent people. I think that once a person is at the point of holding a gun to their own family not much can change them.
I think that the title plays in to the story because the grandmother kept repeating that she believed The Misfit was a good man. And in the end he ended up killing six people. The title kind of talks about how the grandmother has this list of standards that "good men" must fulfill. And she keeps saying that The Misfit fits almost all of the categories. Then in the end he kills her so it kind of goes to show that her list is irrelevant.
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