Good Country People Hulga Summary

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.
The reason is that her original name was Joy and she changed it to Hulga to irritate her mom, leading to the feelings of hate for her mom. This could lead to Hulga probably making her mom out to be more of a monster or a demon to represent her dislike for her mom. Hulga tone towards Mrs.
Freeman would be more of I don’t like you to you are tolerable to a possible I like you. This is because Mrs. Freeman allowed Hulga to take her walks without her mother allowing time for herself without the pity her mom brings her. The story would have more of an accomplished girl overcoming a limiting factor tone compared to more of a poor girl we must pity her tone. I feel like there would be more of sense of courage not a sense of pity which is what Hulga’s tone tries to come off as. Though the characterizations would be representing her feeling towards the other characters it would be more based on Hulga’s feelings based on the actions that the others do towards her, such as her mother’s description of Mrs. Freeman’s daughters. Even looking at Hulga’s feelings towards Manley, we could get a better idea of her exact thoughts toward him. How much smarter she thinks she is compared to Manley, what her actual thoughts were when Manley tricked her and stole her leg. I would think her initial reaction being he is okay looking and he somewhat knows what he is talking about though he lacks an education he can still hold a conversation. To feeling heartbroken, mistreated, and used all because Manley manipulated
her. WE would be able to feel more of the feelings the Hulga had rather than what the narrator left for us to assume she felt. There could still be the debate of who is smarter but it would be more biased towards Hulga since it is from her point. Compared to the narrator writing verses Hulga we would most likely get a different overall tone of Hulga instead of the pity Hulga to more of what has she overcome and what will she eventually overcome. We could get a different side of Mrs. Freeman and Mrs. Hopewell that we wouldn’t get from the narrator’s characterization of them. A simple change in perspective would open up a different end result of analyzing the story.