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        <title><![CDATA[All of the characters in Flannery O'Connor's short story, "Good Country...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[All of the characters in Flannery O'Connor's short story, "Good Country People," suffer from identity issues. Joy (Hulga) Hopewell particularly is an example of a character trying to reinvent herself. She distances herself as much as possible from her mother, a divorcee who sees and lives life in a most simplistic manner. When Joy loses her leg, she discards her old identity as well; she becomes angry and hateful, changes her name to Hulga...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[How is identity a key component in Flannery O'Connor's "Good Country...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[How is identity a key component in Flannery O'Connor's "Good Country People?"]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 12:51:41 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[    Flannery O'Connor's choice of the philosopher Malebranche as a...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[    Flannery O'Connor's choice of the philosopher Malebranche as a subject of Joy/Hulga in her short story, "Good Country People," contains both irony and a deliberate pun on his name.    Nicolas Malebranche (1638-1715) was a French philosopher and ordained priest who believed that an ever-present God was part of every facet of daily life. This is ironic since Joy/Hulga seems to have little belief or faith in God. In the story,...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:49:10 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In the short story, "Good Country People," by Flannery O'Connor, Hulga...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In the short story, "Good Country People," by Flannery O'Connor, Hulga studies the writings of Malebranche. What is the pun on his name?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:15:01 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Joy/Hulga's first taste of romance in the barn loft with Manley Pointer...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Joy/Hulga's first taste of romance in the barn loft with Manley Pointer in Flannery O'Connor's short story "Good Country People" may also be her last for a good long time. Her highly cynical view of life will probably not be altered substantially, but her confidence, notions about men, and view of the outside world will be changed forever. When Manley steals her kisses and then her wooden leg, it reduces the strong-willed Joy to a blubbering...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:12:27 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In what ways do you think Joy/Hulga will change after her encounter with...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In what ways do you think Joy/Hulga will change after her encounter with Manley Pointer in the barn?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:22:13 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The relationship between the one-legged Joy/Hulga Hopewell and the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The relationship between the one-legged Joy/Hulga Hopewell and the Bible-selling scam artist Manley Pointer in Flannery O'Connor's "Good Country People" is certainly one of the most unusual in all of Southern literature. Manley's attraction to Joy at the kitchen table was not evident, since the other women were still present, but when he confronted her outside and then escorted her to the gate--the boundary between her world and the outside...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:31:51 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Analyze the two situations below.
What do they suggest about Manley's...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Analyze the two situations below.
What do they suggest about Manley's attitude? How do they foreshadow the outcome?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:47:06 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[To begin, "the story" doesn't want us to judge anything. However,...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[To begin, "the story" doesn't want us to judge anything. However, Flannery O'Connor may have particular intentions that we can discover through analysis. Mrs. Hopewell, as her name suggests, considers herself an open-minded person. She says that she respects all opinions, but she also labels people as "trash". This kind of simplistic thinking has led her to live in a world of isolation. Hulga, on the other hand, rejects her mother's way of...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:34:53 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[How do you think the story wants you to judge Hulga, Mrs. Hopewell, and...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[How do you think the story wants you to judge Hulga, Mrs. Hopewell, and the good country person who violates them?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:06:19 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Hulga is the representation of blindness in the story, although Manley...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Hulga is the representation of blindness in the story, although Manley Pointer serves as an example of a dearth of morality. Hulga considers herself quite experienced, far beyond the innocent, simple life of the country folk by whom she is surrounded. She projects this simplicity onto the Bible salesman, and that is where her blindness is revealed. Pointer's evil is masquerading as innocence, &amp; he certainly lures Hulga into his illusion....]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:29:23 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[How is "Good Country People" a story of moral blindness?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[How is "Good Country People" a story of moral blindness?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 09:04:31 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA["Good country people" refers to those whom Mrs. Hopewell sees as simple...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA["Good country people" refers to those whom Mrs. Hopewell sees as simple and moral. They are the opposite of how she views her own daughter, Hulga, who revels in her nihilism and uses her education to demonstrate her supposed superiority. The "good country people" are seen as innocent, as opposed to the experience that Hulga imagines herself to have, and the experience that Manley Pointer actually has.
Many of O'Connor's stories deomnstrate...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 6 Oct 2009 12:28:44 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[When Mrs. Hopewell refers to others as "good country people," she means...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[When Mrs. Hopewell refers to others as "good country people," she means it as praise for people who are "simple" and "the salt of the earth." O'Connor uses this dialogue ironically, however, because Mrs. Hopewell only uses this phrase to describe people she considers to be inferior to herself. Mrs. Hopewell not only calls the Freeman family--her hired help--good country people, she also uses the term to describe Manley Pointer, the Bible...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 5 Oct 2009 18:06:39 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What does Mrs.Hopewell mean by the phrase "good country people"?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What does Mrs.Hopewell mean by the phrase "good country people"?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 17:00:40 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[This question has been previously asked and answered. Please see the...]]></title>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 10:42:39 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Why does Joy privately rename herself Hulga in Good Country People?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Why does Joy privately rename herself Hulga in Good Country People?]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[The climax comes during the scene where the wandering salesman, Manley...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The climax comes during the scene where the wandering salesman, Manley Pointer, steals Hulga's leg. The irony in his evil, and her reflective innocence, reveals that Hulga has been trapped by her physical incapacity, as well as her spiritual.
This is the moment when Hulga's carefully built defense of nihilism breaks down. Instead of being the temptress, soiling a God-fearing man as she supposed, she finds herself the victim of an act of...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 12:02:00 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is the climax of the story "Good Country People" by Flannery O'...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What is the climax of the story "Good Country People" by Flannery O' Connor?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 08:42:46 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Hulga learns that she is not as different from those around her as she...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Hulga learns that she is not as different from those around her as she wishes to be. Her education (a PhD in philosophy) has given her a sense of snobbery, and she feels above what she calls "good country people." Hence the title. She finds her mother and those around her simple, believing in the day-to-day duties of life, and holding onto religious faith. Hulga holds this faith system in contempt, even going so far as to change her given name...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 22:59:34 PST</pubDate>
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