Religion vs Reality - "Good Man is Hard to Find"

Putting more thought about who was the main character in the story "Good Man is Hard to Find" (class discussion), actually I felt like both the Grandmother and The Misfit are both the main character of this story, where Grandmother was representing Religion and The Misfit was representing Reality. As I mentioned on my reading assignment, the Grandmother was the wise (wo) man of this story, predicting the future (the ending of the story). She was an old fashion, typical southern woman, deeply influenced by Christianity (As with O’Connor). The Misfit, in the other hand, was sunk in reality. He mentioned he used to believe in Christianity, but after his father’s death (him causing it or not) he could only think about running away and perhaps killing. His mind was fogged his past, even confusing reality at times. SO the grandmother gets shot at the end of the story. Does that mean reality conquers religion? I don’t think so. This is how I interpreted O’Connor’s religion vs reality. Before grandmother was shot, she was comforting The Misfit by her, in a way, persuasion to believe in god again, and that god will forgive him for what he has done. The Misfit felt the comfort until she actually touched him. He all of the sudden got scared of the fact that his mind was clearing up by this godly figure and shot her. It is obvious that his action was unintended. Grandmother’s whole family was shot in the forest because The Misfit and his crew did not want leave evidence in such obvious location, so if everything was as planned, The Misfit wouldn’t have killed the Grandmother until she was taken into the wood. But instead, he shot her before the fact. Therefore I sense that it was his fear that made him do such thing. So at the end, I would interpret that Religion won the game of Religion vs Reality.