A Good Man Is Hard To Find

Such an interesting story....I have always held the opinion that it takes a lot of courage and guts to end a story (in any form-book, movie, short story) on a tragic note. This time, however, I cannot applaud the courage- quite the opposite. To end the story with "The Misfit" killing the entire family seemed to be a complete cop-out. There was nothing exciting about the death of the family, it simply...happened, a way to end the story. When I read this story, I see "The Misfit" included only to end the story, perhaps even inserted into the story AFTER the first or second drafts, after the author realized she had no other way to end it.