Joy/Hulga In Flannery O Connor's Good Country People

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Flannery O’Connor undeniably leaves her readers with an unexpected twist in her short yet witty novel “Good Country People”. Coming from a third person perspective this fiction novel concerns mainly three southern women, who find themselves’ trying to cope with one another’s bothersome personalities’. After a meet up with a bible sales man, Joy/ Hulga finds herself up against her inexperience with love and common sense. Never allow yourself to confuse education with brains, best exemplifies the main character Joy/ Hulga. Joy’s personality allows herself to believe she is better than others simply because she is educated. Most people’s description of Joy would be, happy, cheerful, and maybe even blissful. Sadly O’Connor’s’ full impression of Joy/ Hulga is significantly far from that usage. At the age of ten, Joy’s leg was shot off due to a hunting accident; leaving Joy disabled with nothing more than an artificial leg. Joy could make it easy for anyone in that town to dislike her, but she made it her personal goal to intentionally rebel against her mother Mrs.Hopwell. For example “one of her major triumphs was that her mother had not been able to turn her dust into Joy, but the greater one was that she had been able to turn herself into Hulga”. Joy found herself impressed with the …show more content…
At the same time it disassociated her from the people in her near surroundings. However even though Joy/ Hulga is an educated thirty-two year old women, she still
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