Flannery O'Connor is more obvious in her religious references while Faulkner gives little clues and allusions to this subject. In "A Good Man is Hard to Find", the grandmother believes that the Misfit is truly a good person and she tells the Misfit that he will not shoot her. She trusts God so much that he won't let him shoot her. But that's when he does, and that's where Flannery O'Connor's twisted irony comes in. Faulkner doesn't mention religion in "A Rose for Emily" and the lack of religion is the reason things ended the way they did. There was no satisfaction in the ending or resolution, in Flannery O'Connor's writings, there was always satisfaction in the ending of her short stories. The reader would feel like the main conflict is resolved, whereas in Faulkner's works we never know the true ending and the reader must make personal assumptions about what is happening.