Women share many things and common bonds through out life, and even though they are all different, they have understandings with each other. Several girls have links between them because they feel like their mothers do not understand the way they think or the way they wish to dress. Some females of the human species have the bond of wanting to be admired or needing attention, and it does not matter if they have a PhD or if they are fifteen years old, they still want to be admired or they seek attention. There are also many ladies in the world that have been betrayed or hurt by men, so they also share a tie because of this reason. Even though their situations vary some, the female characters in the stories “Good Country People” by O’Conner and
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In Connie’s case her mother is always comparing her to her sister, Jane, and her mother says things, such as ‘“ Why don’t you keep your room clean like your sister’” or ‘“ Hair spray? You don’t see your sister using that junk’”(Oates 1872). Connie also has to deal with the fact that her mother is always harassing her to do different things. Oates describes this situation by saying “ …Connie’s mother kept picking at her until Connie wished her mother dead and herself dead and it was all over” (1873). Joy/ Hulga’s situation is slightly different because her mother does not understand her and the way she thinks. An example of this can be seen when Mrs. Hopewell picks up one of her daughter’s books and “ [the words] worked on Mrs. Hopewell like an evil incantation in gibberish”(O’Conner 1635). Another problem Joy /Hulga faces is her mother still thinks of her as a child rather than a grown woman in her thirties, “ Mrs. Hopewell thought of [Joy/Hulga] as a child though she was thirty- two years old and highly educated”(1632). According to Margaret Bauer “…Mrs. Hopewell’s effect upon her daughter—that is, the consequences of her failure to recognize her daughter’s value, untraditional though it may be—has to a great extent been ignored.” Both of the mothers do not treat their daughters the way they should have, and that leads them to crave and want other
In Connie’s case her mother is always comparing her to her sister, Jane, and her mother says things, such as ‘“ Why don’t you keep your room clean like your sister’” or ‘“ Hair spray? You don’t see your sister using that junk’”(Oates 1872). Connie also has to deal with the fact that her mother is always harassing her to do different things. Oates describes this situation by saying “ …Connie’s mother kept picking at her until Connie wished her mother dead and herself dead and it was all over” (1873). Joy/ Hulga’s situation is slightly different because her mother does not understand her and the way she thinks. An example of this can be seen when Mrs. Hopewell picks up one of her daughter’s books and “ [the words] worked on Mrs. Hopewell like an evil incantation in gibberish”(O’Conner 1635). Another problem Joy /Hulga faces is her mother still thinks of her as a child rather than a grown woman in her thirties, “ Mrs. Hopewell thought of [Joy/Hulga] as a child though she was thirty- two years old and highly educated”(1632). According to Margaret Bauer “…Mrs. Hopewell’s effect upon her daughter—that is, the consequences of her failure to recognize her daughter’s value, untraditional though it may be—has to a great extent been ignored.” Both of the mothers do not treat their daughters the way they should have, and that leads them to crave and want other