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Good Country People
A platitude is a meaningless conjecture that is put forward as if it is original. I am not going to claim to have found them all, but let's start with the title. "Good Country People" is not only...
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Good Country People
"Good Country People" is packed with ironies of every kind, which is typical of author Flannery O'Connor. Dramatic irony tends to manifest when the audience is privy to information that the...
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Good Country People
Hulga Hopewell has a PhD in philosophy and reads books so abstruse and technical that her mother regards them as "some evil incantation in gibberish." However, she is easily deceived and robbed by...
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Good Country People
Country people are supposed to be the salt of the earth: God-fearing people whose innate sense of goodness can always be relied upon. That's the theory, at any rate. And that's certainly the...
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Good Country People
The central conflict is between Joy/Hulga and Manley Pointer, the so-called Bible salesman who comes to the house and is invited to dinner by Mrs. Hopewell. She believes him to be a good, sincere...
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Good Country People
The point of view in the story goes back and forth from inside Mrs. Hopewell's mind to inside her daughter Hulga's mind. We see the world only through their eyes and their perceptions. This is a...
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Good Country People
The “Good Country People” in Flannery O’Connor’s story include the Freemans. They are a married couple who work for Mrs. Hopewell as tenants on her farm. Mrs. Freeman appears often in the...
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Good Country People
In the short story "Good Country People" by Flannery O'Connor, the characters, particularly Joy, are taught the lesson that their pride in their own knowledge has blinded them to the lessons that...
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Good Country People
“Good Country People” by Flannery O’Connor features two characters who hide behind their names. Joy Hopewell believes that no man will ever be interested in her because she has a prosthetic...
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Good Country People
"Good Country People" has a deeply ironic, almost sardonic, tone. Consider the irony of the title itself—these are not good country people, especially the salesman—and then move on to the first...
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Good Country People
While both Joy/Hulga of Flannery O'Connor's "Good Country People" and Laura Winglfield of Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie are two young handicapped women entrapped in lives of discontent...
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Good Country People
O'Connor's "Good Country People" and Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" explore the consequences of the foolishness of intellectual pretensions. For, both Goodman and Ulga set upon a venture...
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Good Country People
An exposition, in a short story, provides information on the main characters of the story and the setting. Therefore, in Flannery O'Connor's short story "Good Country People," the exposition ends...
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Good Country People
Flannery O’Connor’s story “Good Country People” features an examination of religious views and interesting characters. O’Connor approaches her writing knowing that she will shock her...
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Good Country People
Bookending her story "Good Country People" with Mrs. Freeman allows author Flannery O'Connor to reinforce the irony of the story, a key technique she uses to communicate her themes. At the...
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Good Country People
Set in what Flannery O'Connor called the "Christ-haunted South" her stories find religion as part of several dimensions of the narrative. In "Good Country People" the characters resonate with...
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Good Country People
An archetype is a model on which others are based. Examples of archetypes in literature would be "the mad scientist" (Dr. Jekyll, for example); the strong, invicible hero (think Beowulf), etc....
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Good Country People
There is a sense of "otherness" about both of them which draw them to each other. She rejects those around her--her mother, her mother's friends, others in the community--for being...
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Good Country People
Hulga is Mrs. Hopewell’s only child. She is thirty-two years old and is highly educated. She has a PhD in Philosophy, and most of the villagers find her attitude quite incomprehensible. Mrs....
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Good Country People
First, I need to let you know that I changed the spelling of "crustians" to "chrustians" (as it is in the text). Manley Pointer, in "Good Country People", refers to Christians as "Chrustians". The...
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Good Country People
Hulga Hopewell of "Good Country People" is an unusual character in Flannery O'Connor's fictional world. Hulga Hopewell’s loss of her leg at the age of nine from a gunshot determined her bitter...
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Good Country People
Flannery O'Connor's "Good Country People" is a story of the foolhardiness of intellectual pretensions and the odd redemption of a young lady through her encounter with violence. Joy, who changes...
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Good Country People
Your thesis statement is your position and lets your readers know what you intend to prove in your essay. The following are some ideas of possible positions you could take on Flannery O'Connor's...
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Good Country People
The significance of the title "Good Country runs throughout the story. The title appears all through the story. Yet, each character has faults that demonstrate they are not “good country...
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Good Country People
In Flannery O'Connor's "Good Country People," Manly Pointer claims to be a Bible salesman who is interested in Hulga. He flirts with her and the two of them go walking together the day after he...
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Good Country People
In Flannery O'Connor's short story entitled "Good Country People," Joy, who changes her name to Hulga, thought that good country people were honest, incapable of guile, and easily manipulated. The...
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Good Country People
Hulga hopes to use Manley Pointer for immoral purposes. She believes that he is a very spiritual person, he is a Bible salesman. She thinks that she can shock him with her willingness to have...
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Good Country People
I do not think any of the characters in "Good Country People" are heroic. Mrs. Hopewell is delusional and relies on broad stereotypes to divide people into categories. She decides Manley is "good...
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Good Country People
First, your thinking concerning literary theory needs a slight refinement. Saying that "Good Country People" is "related" to Marxist criticism suggests that it was written with Marxist critical...
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Good Country People
It would appear as if she sees them as very true to their faith, simplistic, and narrow-minded. This is especially true of Mrs. Hopewell and Mrs. Freeman. However, Joy, or Hulga, as she prefers,...
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Good Country People
Flannery O’Connor’s short story “Good Country People” seems to reflect, in certain respects, O’Connor’s own relationship with her mother, Regina. In particular, the relationship...
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Good Country People
Flannery O’Connor lived in and wrote about the south. Most of her stories have themes of religion, race, and class. In “Good Country People,” religion comes to the forefront. As the story...
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Good Country People
Flannery O'Connor's "Good Country People" focuses on the story of a girl named Joy-Hulga Hopewell, who thinks that she is intellectually superior to those around her. Eventually, though, she is...
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Good Country People
Joy “Hulga” Hopewell is one of the most ironic characters ever created by Flannery O’Connor, an author who loved irony of almost every kind. One of the most ironic aspects of Hulga (one of...
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Good Country People
“Good Country People” has a motley crew of characters and points of view. Flannery O’Connor’s central theme focuses around these characters that react to the topic of God in different ways....
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Good Country People
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...
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Good Country People
In "Good Country People" O'Connor comically and morbidly deals with humanity's religious confusion to portray everyone as grotesque: the Freemans, the Hopewells, and Manly Pointer. Namely,...
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Good Country People
Good observation. What I find interesting about Hulga is that she believes herself to be very smart and most likely, beyond being tricked or duped; however, she, at the end of the story, is duped...
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Good Country People
This is a great question. The answer turns out to be complicated. Joy/Hulga does not undergo a change with clear demonstration of the ways she has changed. However, she does have a transformative...
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Good Country People
Philosophy – which literally means “the love of wisdom” – was very important in the life and thinking of Flannery O’Connor. Although O’Connor was herself a deeply devout Christian and...
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Good Country People
Manley Pointer is successful in his misadventures of "Good Country People" because he taps into the weaknesses of the people whom he exploits, pretending to commiserate with them on their beliefs....
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Good Country People
Mrs. Hopewell's character does explain her daughter's character to a point. Joy/Hulga, is an angry, resentful individual, who although very smart, does not participate in life according to her...
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Good Country People
Flannery O'Connor's writing is full of meaning and symbolism that is "hidden in plain sight" as it is woven into a seamless narrative. One of O'Connor's favorite character types is the intellectual...
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Good Country People
In "Good Country People," Flannery O'Connor satirizes certain qualities in human nature such as pretension, and she admires "a sense of being" achieved through a redemptive experience. "Foolishness...
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Good Country People
The title is ironic because the characters who feature in the story might be country people but they don't appear particularly good, in any sense. The four main characters, Mrs Hopewell, her...
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Good Country People
Near the beginning of Flannery O'Connor's comic story "Good Country People," she narrates: And she said such strange things! To her own mother she had said without warning, without excuse,...
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Good Country People
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,...
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Good Country People
Flannery O'Connor's novels and stories are peopled with unique and flawed characters who are the result of O’Connor's satiric worldly perspective. While they are sometimes humorous, these misfits...
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Good Country People
One of the ironies of "Good Country People" is how alike Hulga and Manley Pointer are. As Mrs. Freeman states, "Some people are more alike than others," and that applies to Mrs. Hopewell's daughter...
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Good Country People
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...
