This story starts with the portrayal of Mrs. Freeman, particularly about her communications with Mrs. Hopewell. She worked for Mrs. Hopewell for the past four years, and the two women frequently talks over breakfast in the Hopewell’s kitchen. Mrs. Hopewell take into consideration that Mrs. Freeman is very nosy, she always knew it, but she employed her and takes pride into dealing with this mischievous behavior by maintaining the daily gossip for Mrs. Freeman’s to be aware of everything.…
Good Country People is currently in third person perspective; the story would be a very different in tone and characteristics if written in Hulga’s perspective. At first reading Good Country People it is from the narrator’s point of view allowing you to understand everything that is going on with out the characters forcing a bias feeling or thought towards someone else. This objective type of writing allows the reader to think more about what they feel and interpret the information their way but looking at it through a character’s eyes you could see other sides. I think that looking through Hulga’s eye you would get a different tone and characteristics of another character. We would get a more irritated or disliked tone towards her mother.…
In Flannery O’Connors short story, “Good Country People,” the main theme is about a southern family and their faith, identity and education. Another key theme in the story is the concept of reality vs. illusion. The story employs irony and symbolism to portray the main character’s nihilism, immaturity and rebelliousness as well as the other character’s traits and personalities.…
O'Connor's " Good Country People " is a story about the relationship between main character Joy who changes her name later and her mother Mrs. Hopewell, also people surrounding them. The other important characters are Mrs. Freeman who is hired by Mrs. Hopewell and Manley Pointer who deceits Joy by pretending "good country people".…
Flannery O’Connor in Good Country People writes about a girl named Joy. She lives with her mother, Mrs. Hopewell in a big house with the maid, Mrs. Freeman and her two daughters, Glynese and Carramae that nicknamed Glycerin and Caramel by Joy. Although, Joy lost her leg when she was ten due to hunting accident and wears prosthetic leg, she managed to finish her school and earns her PhD. That proves her as a smart thirty-two years old mature woman, yet Mrs. Hopewell still treats her as a child. The treatment makes Joy so upset and she legally changes her name into Hulga, the ugliest name she could think of to upset the mother. Later in the story, a character is introduced as a Bible salesman with made-up name of Manley Pointer. Looked as a decent…
When a woman decides to get an education, they are creating a huge window of opportunity for success for themselves and others. They are allowing themselves the chance to try and be the best they can be and further their knowledge. You should not let that be a reason to put yourself on a higher pedestal than others though. Yes, you should be proud of your accomplishments, but that should not mean you look down at others because you think you are smarter or more successful.…
Pride throughout literature has been heavily manipulated by authors in positive and negative lights to reflect their intended purpose. In the majority of Flannery O’Conner‘s stories, characters who have pride exude more arrogance than they do confidence, and as a result these characters condescend towards those of lower standards. In “Good Country People,” O’Conner attacks pride to be a negative influence on society in which the central character Hulga has so much pride that she condescends towards others. Here, Hulga condescends towards her mother, Mrs. Freeman, and the bible salesman by treating them as imbeciles and is eventually punished for it by losing her leg. O’Conner defines Hulga’s pride but lets the reader determine and attack how negative it is and therefore how appropriate her punishment is for her actions.…
In "Good Country People," Flannery O'Connor introduces the reader to Hulga Hopewell, a sullen thirty-two year old atheist, who embodies a complex mixture of unsympathetic and sympathetic traits. Hulga’s arrogant confidence that she is intellectually and morally superior to those around her characterizes her as unlikable and unsympathetic. She boldly wears her godless beliefs with little regard for offending those around her. As an illustration, she changes her beautiful name, Joy, to Hulga to spite her mother and considers the ugly name change "one of her major triumphs." She slyly manipulates Mrs. Freeman's rambling conversations to avoid answering her mother's questions about her interest in Manley Pointer, the phony Bible salesman.…
Flannery O’Connor has always liked to use various types of humor and irony in her stories centered around the dark, tragic, and uncomfortable ways of life. She uses these literary techniques to mask what she is truly trying to say. "Good Country People" by Flannery O 'Connor is a prime example of humor and irony which makes fun of the simple, intellectual, as well as the incongruous people in the world.…
because she got a PhD in Philosophy. Joy/Hulga shows this superior attitude by failing to…
The setting of the story is in the early 1900's in a small town in Georgia. The story is told in a first person narrative by the main character Celie. Celie starts out as a quiet character that lets everyone around her run all over her without standing up for her self. The story starts off as Celie being a young fourteen…
Both seem to be uplifting and make the reader believe that the plot will be about something good happening; however, they both take a turn for the worse very quickly. Religion appears with both the Grandmother and Hulga, showing O'Connor's religious beliefs. In "Good Country People", she elaborates on the theme when Hulga struggles to identify who she is since her accident. There is humility in both the stories. The Grandmother is the main character that develops this theme in "A Good Man is Hard to Find" and Hulga in "Good Country People". "Good Country People" uses humility in its story more clearly than "A Good Man is Hard to Find". An example of this is when Manley Pointer takes Hulga's artificial leg. This allows the reader to develop some genuine sympathy for Hulga in this situation that O'Connor has purposely put her in. Both stories written by O'Connor are very good, but "Good Country People" is stronger in its use of identity to show the struggles the characters…
Flannery O 'Connor 's novels and stories are inhabited with unique and flawed characters who are the result of O’Connor 's satiric worldly perspective. While they are sometimes humorous, these misfits are usually unpleasant. Critics have termed them "grotesque," but O 'Connor has rejected this term because it suggests that the characters are too weird to belong in the real world. Instead, O 'Connor insists that the South is inhabited by many such people. For every good or evil thing, there is an antagonist or opposing force. One of Flannery O’Connor’s most successful stories, “Good Country People”addresses themes of this “good versus evil,” the possibility of redemption achieved through an encounter with violence, and the foolishness of intellectual pretensions.…
Beauty can be a powerful literary tool if used by a character whom is either desired by another or is said to be authentically aesthetically pleasing to the eye. This form of beauty as a means to get what one wants is on display in Armadale by Wilkie Collins. In this work, Collins uses the constantly described impeccable beauty of the main antagonist, Lydia Gwilt, to build the character into the conniving creature of deception that she becomes and through the manipulation of others is able to skew the otherwise tainted views of her character. From the time Lydia Gwilt is introduced in the first chapter of “Book the Third,” to the end of the story, her beauty is described. This exquisite beauty Lydia possess enables her to do many deceitful things and get away with them solely based on how she looks. Starting with the characters…
Most of an urban people have higher income and better opportunities than small town people. Based on the location and surrounding of a person, it can influence his/her dreams, objectives, and goals. The person who grew up in New York City is most likely to have a dream of working in Wall Street (Investment firms, Banking, Business Analysis) or 5th Avenue (Designing, Modeling, and Retail Businesses). And the person who grew up in country side around farm lands is most likely to dream of becoming a great farmer or entrepreneur in farming business. The city people are more adapted to the diversities and changes because they’re more interrelated with constant changing of global businesses and global affairs. In the other hand, the country people are more content with their lives and more generous than city people. That is why most of the country people way of lifestyles is a lot simpler and their life expectancy rates are also higher than unban people.…