Flannery O'Connor is more obvious in her religious references while Faulkner provides little clues and hints in this regard. In "A Good Man is Hard to Find" the grandmother has faith that the geek is truly a good person and tells the geek that she won't shoot her. She has a lot of faith in God who will not allow him to shoot her. But then he does, and that's where Flannery O'Connor's twisted irony comes in. Faulkner does not mention religion in “A Rose for Emily” and the absence 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 at the end of her stories. The reader would feel that the main conflict is resolved, whereas in Faulkner's works we never know the true ending and the reader has to make personal assumptions about what happens