"A Good Man is Hard to Find" by Flannery O' Conner and Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Birthmark".

Life Forever Changed In the story "A Good Man is Hard to Find" by Flannery O' Conner a hard lesson is learned through the character of a grandmother to a murdered family that pleads to the killer for her life. The grandmother is described by the killer at the end of the story here, "she would have been a good woman if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life" (338) …

…His life is now changed forever. Throughout life you will meet many people that are selfish and egotistical and only realize this when they are directly and adversely affected by a tragic event. To be one of these people is to live life as Aylmer has and not appreciate things, to do anything to get what you want, and to have a self centered ambition that drives you through your poor excuse of a life.