CliffsNotes study guides are written by real teachers and professors, so no matter what you're studying, CliffsNotes can ease your homework headaches and help you score high on exams. Even the names she chooses for each character help her to establish their significance in the story. Its clear that Hulga feels stifled and alone in her mothers house, and so she cant help idealizing the Bible Salesman as soon as he seems like he might be a deep person who could share her interests. She expresses the deep ways of human existence in a simple short work of art. My students love how organized the handouts are and enjoy tracking the themes as a class., Requesting a new guide requires a free LitCharts account. The excerpt is about Mrs Hopewell needing someone to walk over the fields with her. The name Pointer (manly), not his real name, functions as a semi-obscene pun on one level, and it comes to point out, on another level, the depths to which humanity might descend if it follows only its "manly" nature. Even though the kiss causes an extra surge of adrenaline, like that which "enables one to carry a packed trunk out of a burning house," Hulga is now convinced that nothing exceptional happened and that everything is "a matter of the mind's control.". On his entrance in the story, his main purpose is to mock Mrs. Hopewells superior status. Sometimes, there is enough wordiness in his dialogues. Hulgas education is connected to her lack of faith in God, especially in the mind of her mother. Detailed quotes explanations with page numbers for every important quote on the site. This shows that her approach to life is wrong. Mrs. Freemans good nature comes out by her attitude towards Hulga. ). Joy/Hulga is defiant and that ends up leaving her worse off because she goes with Manly Pointer and he leaves her. For instance, the surname for Joy and Mrs. Hopewell is Hopewell. Hulga is alone and misses her artificial leg. Hulgas deformity, her missing leg, has shaped her as a character. At ten oclock in the morning, Joy moves out on a date with Mr. Pointer. Irony in "Good Country People" by Flannery O'Connor The leg cannot be the sense of people's life as it is just a leg, and people should believe in something more real. Then the story shifts to the kitchen of Mrs. Hopewell. Mrs. Hopewell champions these people as the salt, The way characters understand other characters in Good Country People is often the opposite of how these characters truly are. Definitions and examples of 136 literary terms and devices. O'Connor uses the final paragraphs of the story to make clear the parallel which she established earlier between Hulga and her mother. He also carries his briefcase along with him. Remember that until this moment, Hulga has subscribed to an atheistic viewpoint. They continue to kiss, and without her leg she feels entirely dependent on Manley. realized that nothing is perfect and that in the Freemans she had good country people and that if, in this day and age, you get good country people, you had better hang onto them. She also thinks of young men as stupid and useless (because she is intelligent and philosophic). Flannery O'Connor was a writer from the twentieth century who made her characters inflexible, ignorant, and with too much pride.

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