Amy reveals her “smart, unflinching, and sociopathic” self to the audience after meticulous calculation of her husband’s demise down to her own suicide that she chooses later not to go through with (Jones). While writing the journal, “her deceptiveness and her dormant fury” (Hume 3) grew like when Charlotte Perkins Gillman was writing The Yellow Wall Paper. In the article A Good Man is Hard To Find by Flannery O’Connor we can see her as the:
“… Ruthlessly manipulative and moralistic grandmother, immersed in the sin of Pride…[that] has long maintained the flattering illusion of a radical distinction between herself and others. Self-righteously superior, she therefore can justify all of her own behavior…” (Bonney 347).
She is even as boastful to