Joy-Hulga In Flannery O Connor's Good Country People

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In Flannery O’Connor’s “Good Country People”, I believe that Joy-Hulga had multiple things that were at stake once she agreed to meet with Manly. O’Connor makes it clear in the beginning of the story that Joy-Hulga didn’t feel emotion, and if she did it was only bitterness and anger: “When Hulga stumped into the kitchen that morning (she could walk without making the awful noise but she made it - Mrs. Hopewell was certain - because it was ugly sounding), she glanced at them and did not speak.” Joy-Hulga made herself very shallow and unresponsive to anything that wouldn’t allow her to feel her usual pettiness. After she met Manly, however, she can feel herself begin to open up her mind and her heart to the foreign feelings of adoration and love.
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