The story possesses a both kinds of conflicts, external and internal. At the same time the story creates a contrast in the internal conflict of the two main characters. It is interesting to analyze how each moral code of each of the two main characters dictates their view of life, death, people and the world around them.
In the story both the grandmother and Misfit possess and profess a different moral code that dictate their perceptions. While each one creates a different code of ethics for themselves in order to create a guide of life and a set of rules to live by; a code of ethics or compass doesn’t always mean it’s righteous.It is only a set of rules while the goodness of people it’s subjective.
This is what I believe to be an internal…show more content… She believes that the world around her is not guided and it’s unfit to her own ways. She is self-centered and egocentric by believing she is morally superior to everyone else in the world and that the “lack of goodness” it’s what is wrong in society. She never turns her critical eye on her own personality to realize the presence of selfishness. Overall she has a perception of “good” only to those that align to her own set of rules. It comes to a point where she constantly deceives her family and does not respect the world around her and even though her professed love for Jesus, she is unable to cast a prayer when she is in her last moments of life to the point that she questions the divinity of Jesus when she realizes that she will…show more content… While at first glance it might seem misguided and “not good”, it is actually more consistent than the grandmother. The misfit has a different moral code that remains consistent with his actions. He is clearly disappointed with the system that puts him in the position he currently is, however he believes that the punishment a man receives its mostly disproportionate to the crime he commits. He has a disdain about religion and questions religion in a manner that makes the grandmother doubt her own faith. The conflict of “the Misfit” it’s for the reader initially internal, one would think that there is something wrong inside him and that his moral compass it’s
