First Impressions Of Mrs. O 'Connor's Good Country People'

My First impression of reading “good country people” was how interesting how the narrator portrayed each characters Mrs. Freeman and Mrs. Hopewell. I felt they were the most judgmental people and in my opinion Mrs. Hopewell was excessively critical with her daughter Joy. Mrs. Hopewell may portray nice, but she's definitely can be negative all the time. For Instance, in the following Mrs. Hopewell would say “When Hulga stumped into the kitchen in the morning (she could walk without making the awful noise but she made it) Mrs. Hopewell was certain because it was ugly-sounding” (O'Connor) She thought of her daughter wooden leg was an ugly sound to her. Mrs. Hopewell looked at Joy as if she was a child even though she was thirty two years old.
do you ever look inside? Do you ever look inside and see what you are not? God!." (O'Connor ) Then she had cried sinking down again and staring at her plate. She could see how over judgmental her mother was. Mrs. Hopewell didn’t give her Joy so much empathy for accident her leg conditions, instead she would tell Mrs. Freeman all about her accident and she Mrs. Freeman would also critical with Joy. She would call he Hulga. Another example how Mrs. Freeman didn’t treat Joy kindly was she said, “It was as if Mrs. Freeman's beady steel-pointed eyes had penetrated far enough behind her face to reach some secret fact. Something about her seemed to fascinate Mrs. Freeman and then one day Hulga realized that it was the artificial leg. Mrs. Freeman had a special fondness for the details of secret infections, hidden deformities, assaults upon children. Hulga had heard Mrs. Hopewell give her the details of the hunting accident, how the leg had been literally blasted off, how she had never lost consciousness. Mrs. Freeman could listen to it any time as if it had happened an hour ago.” (O'Connor) So now Joy has two women in her life that look down upon her and do not support her choices in any way