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In reading short stories it is
sometimes difficult to remember the reason why they are written. In
Good Country People, by Flannery O'Connor, the development of character
allows the reader to make discoveries about themselves. This 5 page
paper argues that the character of Joy, Hulga is dual dimensional as
seen by the change in name. Her true nature is masked by an
intellectual nihilism in defense of feelings of inadequacy resulting
from her physical deformity. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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entertainment or education. In Good Country People, by Flannery OConnor, the development of character allows the reader to make discoveries about themselves. The character of Joy, Hulga is
dual dimensional as seen by the change in name. Her true nature is masked by an intellectual nihilism in defense of feelings of inadequacy resulting from her physical deformity.
The manner in which OConnor presents characters and themes confers a duality which seems to be a major technique used by the writer. The real versus the
ideal, past and present, evil and goodness, and the human and the divine are among the dichotomies that she utilizes in her writing. A primary duality used in presenting
the character of Joy, Hulga is the physical and intellectual. The character of Joy is positively defined in terms of her intellectual abilities ("I have a number of degrees"
pp. 288) and negatively defined in terms of her physical attributes. She feels the loss of her leg as a loss of her soul, or the loss of her
belief in a God. Joy, Hulga, as the heroine, is dichotomized into the physical, "with all the pejorative connotations (hull = hulk = huge = ugly)" (Grimshaw 51)
and the intellectual mask revealed in the changing of her name. "She considered the name her personal affair. She had arrived at it first purely on the basis
of its ugly sound and then the full genius of its fitness had struck her. She had a vision of the name working like the ugly sweating Vulcan who
stayed in the furnace and to whom, presumably, the goddess had to come when called. She saw it as her highest creative act" ( 275). To deny her own
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