Some of Flannery O’Connor’s most memorable characters are of advanced or advancing age; many of them are explicitly identified as grandparents, most notably the Grandmother in “A Good Man is Hard to Find.” Often O’Connor’s aged or aging know-it-all characters are juxtaposed with know-it-all young people in the same stories, and often it is the know-it-all older characters who learn the fullest and deepest lessons by the time the tales conclude. O’Connor herself felt sure of the lessons we should derive from her fiction. This chapter reflects on the lessons she hoped to teach and those that people like myself, who do not necessarily share all of her assumptions, are capable of learning, especially as we approach the inevitable ends of our own lives.