Free Will In Flannery O Connor's In Good Country People

You have the freedom to go out into the world and be happy, help someone, or just be you. You also have the freedom to go out there and ruin someone’s life. Everyone has free will and can choose what they want to do with their lives. Free will means being able to do whatever you desire in life. There is no limits to what you can do in your life. As with anything in life it could either be used to bring happiness or bring sorrow. These decisions can be very subjective and it all depends on the person. Some people murder because of life traumas and others help the less fortunate because they have more than they need. The stories of author Flannery O’Connor present people who are morally corrupt and have free will. These characters are rude,
O’Connor blatantly tries to make these kinds of characters the most obnoxious and rude and overall disgusting. Hazel Motes was a man that is described as having eyes that seep into his skull and Hulga has a wooden leg, has heart problems and is pretentious. The characters that are the most existentialist are usually the most grotesque. O’Connor has these beliefs because she was raised in a catholic family. In Good Country People Hulga believes that she is saving people from having illusions because she believes she does not fall into that sort of stuff. She is selfish and just like Hazel, she only comes to see the error of her ways after something horrible happens to her. What O’Connor is trying to say with the recurring event of grace is that existentialists cannot base their life beliefs on the choices they make because someday something will happen and change their whole worldview. In the story Hulga’s book states "Nothing—how can it be for science anything but a horror and a phantasm? If science is right then one thing stands firm: science wishes to know nothing of nothing." Hulga is saying that science is not looking into the fact that maybe life is about nothing. One characteristic of the philosophy of existentialism is
Mr. shiftlet arrives at the house of Lucynell Crater and her daughter who has the same name. He has a mysterious appearance and he never mentions where he is from and avoids the question and when he tries to answer he says that he can say wherever he’s from but you can never know because what if he’s lying. Just from that, it is clear that he has gotten his way before. Shiftlet agrees to fix up Lucynell’s house and be allowed stay there. Soon after getting the trust of Mrs. Lucynell, he marries the daughter and gets the car that belonged to the mother. He abandons the daughter at a diner while she is asleep and takes the car. He married a girl and made the mother trust him just so he could get a free car. O’Connor makes Mr.shiftlet so malicious and evil because she wants to show how morally corrupt a person with free will can be. He has no sense of consequence and thinks only about how he can get things for himself. Mr. Shiftlet is also missing an arm and O’connor made him this way because it represents how his physical appearance is just as twisted as his personality. He tricks and abandons and innocent women who is mentally handicapped and leaves her on her own even though he knows that she can’t take care of herself. It may seem like the mother Mrs. Lucynell is a sweet old lady who got tricked but she