In "The Life You May Save May Be Your Own" , who is worse,Shiftlet or Mrs.Crater ? Use quotes.

In a moral sense, Mrs. Crater is the worse of the two.  As her mother, it is Mrs. Crater's responsibility to look out for her daughter's well-being; this responsibility is intensified because of Adminnell's multiple vulnerabilities: deafness, muteness, and mental deficiency.  Mrs. Crater essentially sells her daughter for $17.50, a broken down car, and a place for Shiftlet to stay. Though Adminnell is in her thirties, Mrs. Crater lies to Shiftlet, signalling that she would...

In a moral sense, Mrs. Crater is the worse of the two.  As her mother, it is Mrs. Crater's responsibility to look out for her daughter's well-being; this responsibility is intensified because of Adminnell's multiple vulnerabilities: deafness, muteness, and mental deficiency.  Mrs. Crater essentially sells her daughter for $17.50, a broken down car, and a place for Shiftlet to stay. Though Adminnell is in her thirties, Mrs. Crater lies to Shiftlet, signalling that she would hand off an underage girl to him: "How old is she?" Mr. Shiftlet asked casually. "Fifteen, sixteen," the old woman said."

Shiftlet's behavior is also despicable, but less so, since he isn't using his own flesh and blood as the stakes in a symbolic poker game. He is simply a drifter, opportunist, and con man, and so his abandonment of Adminnell and theft of the car are hardly shocking. His hypocrisy at the end of the story is therefore laughable when he prays ""Oh Lord!" Break forth and wash the slime from this earth!"