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Good Country People
The title "Good Country People" becomes ironic in Joy/Hulga's view of those around her and the events that occur within the story. Holding a PhD, Hulga views herself as superior to her mother and...
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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
In "Good Country People," the character known as Joy who changes her name to Hulga does so to reflect both her physical appearance and as a reflection of her soul. Hulga has a wooden leg, she is...
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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 readers. 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
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
Situational irony is a literary device in which the outcome of a character's actions or circumstances is the opposite of what is expected. In "Good Country People" by Flannery O'Connor, this tool...
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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
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 the main...
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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
Joy's mother suspects that the name Hulga is selected because it is the ugliest name that Joy could find. According to Joy/Hulga this is exactly the case. Joy/Hulga is a somewhat bitter young...
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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
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
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
Mrs. Hopewell is a divorced woman who runs a farm. Her name is symbolic because she is a good Christian woman. She has a daughter, Joy, who has changed her name to Hulga to represent how ugly she...
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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 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
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
It is probably to establish a clear contrast between the two ladies and Hulga. Mrs. Freeman and Mrs. Hopewell are good, God-fearing, country people. They are content to accept things as they are,...
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Good Country People
Joy-Hulga has an incredible sense of superiority over everyone around her. She is college educated with a degree in philosophy and that alone makes her different and "better" than her mother Mrs....
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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
With a style that hides themes in plain sight, Flannery O'Connor has Mrs. Freeman of "Good Country People" comment unsuspectingly upon the Bible salesman, Manley Pointer. This comment expresses a...
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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
“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 leg....
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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...
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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
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
The theme of "Good Country People" could be interpreted several ways. For example, the fact that Hulga is overly pessimistic from the beginning could lead the reader to draw the...
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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
O'Connor, of course, leaves this question unanswered at the end of her story with an ambiguous ending. You could make a good case, however, that Hulga will change in some way after her encounter...
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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
I find two things most significant about the title of Flannery O'Connor's "Good Country People." First, Hulga considers herself more intelligent than all of the good country people around her. She...
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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
"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
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
Two of the primary characters in Flannery O'Connor's short story "Good Country People" are Joy Hopewell and Manley Pointer. Joy has renamed herself Hulga, the ugliest name she can think of, and...
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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
Flannery O'Connor's choice of the title "Good Country People" for her short story about religious small-town people in rural Georgia is considered entirely ironic. As the eNotes biography of...
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Good Country People
Concerning names in "Good Country People": Mrs. Freeman's name is ironic because she isn't free--she's a tenant farmer. Mentally, she is anything but free--she's a simpleton who quotes platitudes...
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Good Country People
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,...
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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 has a great sense of humor--and this story is a perfect example. Ok, not in a "ha ha" sort of way, but still... You have to remember that she was a Catholic who describes 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
Mrs. Hopewell uses this term to describe people who are uncomplicated and uneducated. "Good country people" are characterized also by possessing what Mrs. Hopewell considers good values. This...
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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 was a formalist by training and inclination, which means that she cared about every single detail of her works, even details as small as a single word. Few words O’Connor uses...
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Good Country People
Mrs. Hopewell is extremely skilled at manipulation; in fact, having been warned about the nosiness of Mrs. Freeman, she has a plan in place to mange her before she even hires her and her husband as...
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Good Country People
The last ten lines find Mrs. Hopewell with whom she thinks is her friend, Mrs. Freeman; they are pulling up wild onions that Mrs. Freeman finds "evil-smelling." As Mrs. Hopewell notices Manley...
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Good Country People
When Manley Pointer steals Hulga's leg, he steals her identity, her beliefs and part of her soul. The wooden leg has been what has made her unique, but also one of Flannery O'Connor's...
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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....
