The speaker's name is The Misfit
This quotation shows the Misfit’s understanding of what had taken place in the grandmother’s final moments of life. The misfit is saying the grandmother's hypocritical attitude is what led to her death. Throughout the story, the grandma has told others how to act properly, despite the fact that she had been acting the way she preached to others not to. The misfit says that she could have been a good woman if someone were to keep her from spewing the "moral standards" that she stated she lived by. This quote defines what the story's moral was about. O'Connor is trying to show that finding a truly good person is a difficult task. The grandmother wouldn't have said all those things about the misfit being a good
