In "A Good Man is Hard to Find," what has the Misfits life been like? Why was he put in jail? He says he kills for pleasure. Is there another...

The Misfit
claims that he was raised well and that his life turned when he was put in prison for the murder
of his father. However, he also remembers his father dying 1918. There's a certain tension and
ambiguity in terms of how he frames his time in prison, because while he is quite clear that he
did not commit the crime he was imprisoned for, he also seems to be of the opinion that this
detail does not actually matter. What matters is that the State found him guilty, and he was
imprisoned for it. Furthermore, he himself claims to have committed a transgression, even if his
own story would suggest otherwise.

As to the second question, I don't think
the it's as simple as that the Misfit kills because he enjoys killing (I think his psychological
crisis runs far deeper than that). Rather, I would say that at the core of his criminality is a
deep and profound nihilism. We see this in his conversation with the grandmother, as it regards
to the Christian message. As he tells her, if the...