Question

PLEASEEE HEEELPP!!! Read the excerpt below and answer the question.

"She would of been a good woman," The Misfit said, "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life."

In this excerpt from “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” Flannery O’Connor suggests that the grandmother .

A) could only have been if constantly under duress

B) could not have been killed if she had been a better woman

C) was only a good woman when seen through a camera lens

D) was a good woman who did not deserve the fate she received

Answer 1

A) could only have been if constantly under duress

Step-by-step explanation:

Option A is the correct answer because Flannery O'Connor is suggesting that his grandmother could have been a good woman only under constant vigilance, treats, and corrections that lead her to do the right things in life. That is what O'Connor is trying to say when he said to shoot her every minute of her life.

Answer 2

A) could only have been if constantly under duress

Step-by-step explanation:

The excerpt means that if grandmother had experienced such threat and shock every moment of her life like the one she experienced in the hands of The Misfit, she would have learnt to be sincere, kind and caring. The experience before Misfit took her life made her thoughtful and sober for once.

"A Good Man Is Hard to Find" is a book by an American novelist and writer Flannery O’Connor. The story is thought to have been fabricated from newspaper stories. It deals with a killer known as The Misfit who murders an entire family.