An Analysis Of Flannery O Connor's Good Country People

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What is a definition of a “good country person”? A good country person is someone who lives in a rural area where they spend time working their animals. Some good country people are Christians, where they go to church and worship the Lord with their family. Good country people are nice people, they will always help you when you need them and they will always have your back. In the story “Good Country People”, there are some people that do not act like a good country person. In Flannery O’ Connor’s “Good Country People”, the stereotype that is most apparent in this story is what contributes to the irony. The stereotype surrounding “good country people” will lead to the main character of the story of “good country people”, Hulga down the road of surprise and humility. There are two main characters that believe that good country people are uneducated and uncomplicated. The two main characters of this story is “Mrs. Freeman and Joy/ Hulga. There are assumptions to these two characteristics will eventually lead to trouble for Hulga. …show more content…

Changing her name also reflects of how she feels about her mother. When Joy was ten years old, she was in a hunting accident where it caused her to have a wooden leg. This deformity causes Joy to view herself as ugly and unattractive. Joy is also detached from life and everything about it and she does not believe in God. Hulga’s belief in nothing, that there is no God, and she believes that she is smarter than all of the country people that she is surrounded by, end up teaching Hulga a valuable lesson. Given an opportunity to show her “power” with the character Manly, a simple-minded Bible salesman, she learns quickly that the person she was planning to manipulate ended up manipulating and making her look like a

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