Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find"

Throughout the story you hear the word "good" being used in multiple of contexts. It is used primarily by the grandmother, but is also used by other characters. She first uses it with Red Sammy when talking about why he let two complete strangers charge gasoline. She says he let them charge it because he is a "good man". So because he foolishly let someone take advantage of him makes him inherently "good". Then she uses it again when she is talking to the misfit. Saying that he wouldn't shoot a lady because he is "good". In this case and the other are both cases in which she values good and not what it really means to be good. If you have the same beliefs and views as the grandmother then you are naturally "good". When in both cases neither are true definitions of what it is to be good. They aren't based on a moral belief, but instead on having her same views of what people should be like.