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A 3 page essay that contrasts and compares Flannery O'Connor's short story "Good Country People" and Eudora Welty's story "A Worn Path." The writer argues that both stories are deeply psychological in their orientation and suggests that it is how the characters deal with adversity, rather than the adversity itself, that defines who they really are. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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story" (Harbour 187). Examination of OConnors short story "Good Country People" and Eudora Weltys story "A Worn Path" shows that this characteristic is not unique to OConnor, but can be
used to characterize Weltys story as well. Both authors present protagonists who rely heavily on their fantasies, that is, mental constructs that act as buffers between themselves and the world.
In both stories, these fantasies are threatened and the way that these women cope provide clues for the reader into their psychological makeup. As this suggests, both stories are deeply
psychological in their orientation and suggests that it is how the characters deal with adversity, rather than the adversity itself, that defines who they really are. The protagonists in
both stories rely on fantasy. The protagonist in "Good Country People" is a woman named "Joy" who has renamed herself "Hulga" because she feels it suits her better. Joy-Hulga has
built up a carefully constructed fantasy that she is more intelligent than the "good country people" to whom she feels superior. This hides her feelings of anger and inferiority over
having an artificial leg. Weltys protagonist is an elderly African American woman named Phoenix Jackson. This story entails Phoenix traveling over a "worn path" to get medicine for her young
grandson. It is clear that she has done this many times before. At some point in the past, several years ago at least, the boy accidentally swallowed some lye, which
suggests that he was a toddler. Welty carefully constructs the story so that the circumstances regarding Phoenixs grandson are not clear. Phoenix Jackson clearly thinks that he is alive,
but her failing eyesight, hallucinations, and lapses of memory all tend to indicate that her word cannot be considered as infallible. After all, she is able to forget, for a
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