Good Country People, by Flannery O’Connor is a short story that describes the relationship between four main characters, who have distinct feeling about the others, from misunderstanding to contempt. From these four characters, Joy (Hulga) and Manley Pointer are the deepest and the ones with the most obvious facades. The bulk of the story takes place between these two characters, Joy and Manley, who begin their relationship in a simple and natural way, but ended up showing their true characters. To understand more clearly what has happened between the two of them and how Manley challenge Hulga’s virtues, the reader must discover the characters of two of them. Hulga, Mrs. Hopewell daughter, is 32 years old with an artificial leg due to a
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I don’t know how to say a thing but to say it. I’m just a country boy” (7). Everything sounds great in his story, until the reader find out that he 's ”from out in the country around Willohobie, not even from a place, just near a place" (O’Connor 7). When a character is "not even from a place," it 's usually not a good sign. In reality, he was a con artist, a liar, a manipulator. O’Connor didn’t give us any details regarding Manley’s illness, if he is true or not, therefore the reader can conclude that he is using this fact just to get close to Hulga, like he did when he told her that “ I like girls that wear glasses” (12) and when he asked her to show him her wooden leg, he said that “it’s what makes you different. You ain’t like anybody else” (16). He used all these nice words to get her heart, to gain her confidence, to impress this lonely …show more content…
She did believe in the existence of good and bad, right and wrong. The act of violence against Hulga returns her to the reality that there are other kind of people with other educations which she has missed, that out there aren’t only “good country people”. It has taken someone more cynical and evil than herself to make her aware of the truth. However, this experience it will be valuable for Hulga. She is still alive and she has a chance to change and the reader can think that probably she will be dramatically changed by this experience, she will become more humble and maybe she will return to Joy. She must be ready to face challenges beyond her mother 's house, in the real world, where there aren’t only “good country people”, but also there are liars, manipulators, people without any believes, who are “not even from a
I don’t know how to say a thing but to say it. I’m just a country boy” (7). Everything sounds great in his story, until the reader find out that he 's ”from out in the country around Willohobie, not even from a place, just near a place" (O’Connor 7). When a character is "not even from a place," it 's usually not a good sign. In reality, he was a con artist, a liar, a manipulator. O’Connor didn’t give us any details regarding Manley’s illness, if he is true or not, therefore the reader can conclude that he is using this fact just to get close to Hulga, like he did when he told her that “ I like girls that wear glasses” (12) and when he asked her to show him her wooden leg, he said that “it’s what makes you different. You ain’t like anybody else” (16). He used all these nice words to get her heart, to gain her confidence, to impress this lonely …show more content…
She did believe in the existence of good and bad, right and wrong. The act of violence against Hulga returns her to the reality that there are other kind of people with other educations which she has missed, that out there aren’t only “good country people”. It has taken someone more cynical and evil than herself to make her aware of the truth. However, this experience it will be valuable for Hulga. She is still alive and she has a chance to change and the reader can think that probably she will be dramatically changed by this experience, she will become more humble and maybe she will return to Joy. She must be ready to face challenges beyond her mother 's house, in the real world, where there aren’t only “good country people”, but also there are liars, manipulators, people without any believes, who are “not even from a