The lead character has similarities with each other. The similarities are two of them have
the same gender (woman), and they also have the same characteristics.Â
In the story of "Displaced Person", the female lead character is so selfish. She also feels superior because she is a white
woman.Â
It can be looked at the act of Mrs. McIntyre to refuse Mr. Guizac's plan of arranging the
marriage of his cousin with one of Negro man in the farm. This is one of the racist statements
that Mrs. Mclntyre saidÂ
"I cannot understand how a man who calls himself a Christian," she said,
"could bring a poor innocent girl over here and marry her to something like that. I cannot
understand it. I cannot!" (O'connor, 1971, p. 223).Â
Mrs. Mclntyre has a narrow mentality towards people in Europe. She thinks that people in Europe are less than human. She doesn't believe
every worker on her farm.Â
Mrs. McIntyre has the same characteristics as the grandmother in "A Good Man is Hard to Find".Â
In the story, the grandmother draws as a woman who racist with calling a poor Black child and reveals how superior she is. Her words when describing a black child is racistÂ
"...Oh look at die cute little pickaninny!" she said and pointed to a Negro child
standing in die door of a shack. "Wouldn't that make a picture, now?" (O'connor, 1971, p. 119).
The grandmother is a selfish woman too. She wanted to go see her childhood home even though
it was on a difficult road and contrary to its original purpose. In the story Grandmother's
selfishness makes all the family into a fatality.
Even though there is similarity in the previous paragraph, there are also many
distinctions.Â
The female lead character in "Displaced Person" is materialism. She wants to get
profit as much as she could but does not give the proper amount for her worker.Â
Her brain and heart conclude that "One fellow's misery is the other fellow's gain." (O'connor, 1971, p. 203).
She is full of the love of material wealth. She also does not like help for humanity. Therefore, She said in the story that she does not have any obligation to help others "I am not responsible for die world's misery," (O'connor, 1971, p. 223).Â
The female lead in this story does not believe in God. She believes in her effort to get the goals. Her success in the farm makes her pride grew bigger.Â
Mrs. McIntyre behaves as if she can do everything by herself alone. She felt that Christ is an "extra" for her. Therefore it does not fit in her materialistic farm. She even tells the priest about her thought thatÂ
"Christ was just another D.P. (displaced person)" (O'connor, 1971, p. 229).