The grandmother thinks of herself as a lady, and a good Christian woman. Is she?

The answer to this
question will depend, in part, on your definition of a good Christian woman. Were the definition
charitable or forgiving, then the grandmother might well be described as a good Christian woman.
She loves her family and strives to act according to what she believes is right. 

However, the grandmother's sense of right is highly convenient and selfish. She is
deceitful, arrogant, manipulative, bitter and judgmental. As a person who seems entirely to lack
generosity of spirit and who ultimately disavows the Christian miracle of Christ raising the
dead, the grandmother does not seem likely to fit most narrow definitions of a good Christian
woman. 

Early in the story, the grandmother demonstrates her negative
traits. The text of the narrative overtly suggests that in telling her son, Bailey, that the
family should go to Tennessee for their vacation instead of Florida she is attempting to
manipulate her son. The family wants to go to Florida, but she wants to go to...