In the story, the Misfit represents the new generation of young and religiously misguided people, and the grandmother symbolizes the older generation who have gone somewhat removed from religion. The grandmother's final act led to an opportunity for grace. She dies in a pool of blood: “her legs crossed like those of a child and her face smiling at the cloudless sky”. (O’Connor 1295). This shows that in her last breath, she found redemption. O'Connor uses the grandmother and the Misfit to show how grace and salvation are available to everyone. In the short story, no one is without sin but we can see that no one is beyond redemption.