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A 3 page paper which compares and contrasts two characters who are fooled into believing something that forever changes them. The characters and stories are Joy in Good Country People by Flannery O’Connor and Mrs. Mallard in The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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very different women. Joy, in OConnors story, is very pessimistic and negative, as well as arrogant and bitter. Mrs. Mallard, in Chopins story, is fragile and does not appear to
be anything less than kind and sensitive. Joy is stubborn and belligerent and Mrs. Mallard appears very compromising and selfless. But, at the heart of these two stories lie women
who are both very fragile and they suffer the consequences of being fragile through being fooled. The following paper compares and contrasts this frailty as it involves their being fooled,
and forever changed. Characters Who are Fooled: Chopin and OConnor As mentioned, Joy is not necessarily a character that the reader sees as anything but negative, and as
such the reader will not see her as frail: "the large hulking Joy, whose constant outrage had obliterated every expression from her face, would stare just a little to the
side of her, her eyes icy blue, with the look of someone who had achieved blindness by an act of will and means to keep it" (OConnor). In the case
of Mrs. Mallard there is no doubt that she is frail: "Knowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble, great care was taken to break to her as
gently as possible the news of her husbands death" (Chopin). In these two simple descriptions it is very evident that the women are very different. Mrs. Mallard has an obvious
condition and is also from a different time, the Victorian era when women were supposed to be gentle and sensitive and essentially do what they were told. She could not,
in good society, behave any differently. Joy, on the other hand, was a woman from the country and woman who was educated and bitter because she had a fake leg
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