accomplishments‚ but that should not mean you look down at others because you think you are smarter or more successful. In the story “Good Country People”‚ Hulga has a P.H.D. and because of that she tends to look down on others for not being as smart as her. “Joy had made it plain that if it had not been for this condition‚ she would be far away from these red hills and good country people.
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O’Connor has written several stories. In at least two of her stories‚ “A Good Man is Hard to Find” and “Good Country People”‚ three of the characters have several similarities. Although they don’t have the same position in the stories‚ they do have several similar personality traits. Manley Pointer‚ The Misfit‚ and the grandmother all have things in common even though they are very different people. In the story “Good County People” by Flannery O’Connor‚ Manley Pointer is seen as an uneducated‚ kind
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person that is willing to change‚ but it also affects the people that surround them. Common themes that are seen to advance Southern Gothic Literature short stories are the usage of “tradition” and “interiority” as a means of getting the readers to feel sympathy for the characters that have no control of changing their fate. From gender roles to society rules‚ people have an appetite for control and traditions are one aspect of life that people can and will control. Traditions are beliefs/procedures
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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
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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
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P. English 12 11 February 2013 Title The ‘Southern Gothic’ genre is captured greatly in Tennessee Williams’s novel A Streetcar Named Desire. By hyperbolizing the cast’s personalities‚ the story takes on an eerie quality. Our introduction to the cast begins with Blanche‚ arguably the most off-putting of all the personalities presented. Blanche comes to New Orleans on the brink of insanity only to see that her sister‚ once the perfect southern belle just like Blanche‚ has moved away from that
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Flannery O’Connor’s “Good Country People” is a short story about the connection between one’s soul and life. The story centers around Hulga (Joy) Hopewell and the life-changing experience she has with a traveling Bible salesman (Meyer 265). As a whole‚ “Good Country People” shows how a person’s point of view can affect the experiences they have. At the beginning of the story‚ Mrs. Hopewell (Hulga’s mother) has a positive experience with the Bible salesman. As a southern woman who believes in “Chrustian
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religion‚ dysfunctional families‚ and death are all topics that come up at one time or another during Fannery O’Connor’s symbolic tales "Good Country People"� and "A Good Man is Hard to Find"�. "Good Country People"� is a story about a simple mother‚ her 30 year old daughter who likes being miserable‚ and the man that steals her leg and teachers her a lesson in life. "A Good Man is Hard to Find"� is a story about a dysfunctional family who goes on vacation and are killed on the way there by an escaped convict
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Hulga and Manley Pointer Was there ever a plan in your head that you were so confident in‚ yet it backfired on you? Hulga from “Good Country People” plans to destroy Manley Pointer’s emotions‚ but he ended up stealing her leg. Hulga deserves what she had gotten‚ because karma is out there‚ and even though Hulga did not destroy Manley Pointers faith her intentions were to destroy him‚ and that was bad enough. Hulga’s thoughts and steps towards destroying Manley Pointer ended up in a tragedy Hulga
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O’Connor’s most successful stories‚ “Good Country People” was published in 1955. “Good Country People” addresses the of good versus evil‚ the foolishness of intellectual pretensions‚ and most importantly the theme of reality versus illusion. An important character Mrs. Hopewell’s daughter Hulga‚ born as Joy has a Ph. D but seems to have no common sense. She allows her self to be tricked by a “Bible salesman” and gets her self in to a binding situation. Good Country people deals with illusion vs. reality
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