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- Title
Consenting to Love: Autiobiographical Roots of "Good Country People."
- Authors
Bosco, Mark
- Abstract
This essay presents information about the book "Good Country People" by Flannery O'Connor. "Good Country People," one of O'Connor's most successful and most anthologized stories, centers on the maimed Joy Hopewell, fitted with a wooden leg as the result of a childhood accident. She has officially changed her name to Hulga to reflect the ugliness she feels about life and to spite her mother. Hulga, who has a doctorate in philosophy and displays a disdain for her mother's southern, Christian manners, lives as an aloof recluse on the family farm. One day she has an encounter with a disarming salesman named Manley Pointer.
- Subjects
ESSAYS; GOOD Country People (Short Story : O'Connor); O'CONNOR, Flannery, 1925-1964; BOOKS; PEOPLE with disabilities; ACCIDENTS; DISABILITIES
- Publication
Southern Review, 2005, Vol 41, Issue 2, p283
- ISSN
0038-4534
- Publication type
Literary Criticism