Irony In Good Country People

1.) I feel like if O’Connor’s short story, “Good Country People” has something to do with something that happened to her while she was of this age. I feel like it’s a reflection of her real-life experience reflected into a fictional point of view. Moving on, I feel like if Hulga’s attitude that intelligence and education are incompatible with religious faith, can be said to a common view in people who are highly educated. The Christian faith as well know it, requires a specific belief in concepts such as, “resurrection from the dead.” Things too such as this can be said to be difficult for people of intelligence and education to rationalize. To me it isn’t surprising that Hulga, as a high educated person to hold this view. There is one big …show more content…
As I went in deeper and deeper into the story I happened to learn that the title “good country people” doesn’t at all refer to any of the characters. For example, Mrs. Freeman happened to be a chatterbox who just loves to brag about her two daughters, as she was first introduced at the beginning of the story. As the story indicates Mrs. Hopewell is very insistent that the Freemans aren’t “White Trash” but “good country people” because as I learned Mrs. Hopewell is a prideful woman and she wouldn’t want to hire “white trash.” Same thing happens with the so called “Manley Pointer.” All he done was steal Hulga’s pride and joy, her wooden leg, so he just like the others is not a “good country people.” Now going back to the main character, Hulga. She isn’t a “good country people” either, she tends to fantasize herself above everyone else since she is highly educated, and they are not. The use of the phrase throughout the story has the effect of pointing out that the “good country people” are actually “bad country people.” This is an appropriate title for this story since it reveals that the “good country people” aren’t quite as “good” as they