What Is Kate Oliver's Analysis Of 'Good Country People'?
Strengths and Weaknesses of Kate Oliver’s Analysis of “Good Country People”
Kate Oliver’s analysis of Flannery O’Connor’s “Good Country People” claims that Joy-Hulga’s physical symbolizes her emotional impairments. By going into detail of the context of O’Connor’s original short story, Kate Oliver is able to make an overall moderately strong argument of how she feels she is correct in her analysis. Oliver is able to make a strong argument when she writes about Joy-Hulga’s emotional detachment and artificial beliefs, yet could have went into more details instead of being so vague with her examples and correlations when it came to show how she was blind to reality. O’Connor’s original short story takes place on a Southern farm in the …show more content…
It takes place on a southern farm in the mid 1950s whenever Christianity was big and when people were trusting in each other.
List the conflicts in this story (internal and/or external):
Joy has many internal conflicts having to do with her faith, blindness to reality, and her view of nothingness in the world.
Some external conflicts are her and her mother’s relationship, and her trusting in Manley Pointer yet him leaving her legless and visionless in the barn.
What is the climax of the story? (note: the climax is the most exciting and emotional point of a story; it usually occurs near the end)
The climax to the story is whenever Manley and Joy were in the barn and he takes her fake leg and glasses.
What happens during the resolution of the story?
Joy is left in the barn with literally nothing; no leg and no glasses. Her emotional nothingness is matched with actual physical
Kate Oliver’s analysis of Flannery O’Connor’s “Good Country People” claims that Joy-Hulga’s physical symbolizes her emotional impairments. By going into detail of the context of O’Connor’s original short story, Kate Oliver is able to make an overall moderately strong argument of how she feels she is correct in her analysis. Oliver is able to make a strong argument when she writes about Joy-Hulga’s emotional detachment and artificial beliefs, yet could have went into more details instead of being so vague with her examples and correlations when it came to show how she was blind to reality. O’Connor’s original short story takes place on a Southern farm in the …show more content…
It takes place on a southern farm in the mid 1950s whenever Christianity was big and when people were trusting in each other.
List the conflicts in this story (internal and/or external):
Joy has many internal conflicts having to do with her faith, blindness to reality, and her view of nothingness in the world.
Some external conflicts are her and her mother’s relationship, and her trusting in Manley Pointer yet him leaving her legless and visionless in the barn.
What is the climax of the story? (note: the climax is the most exciting and emotional point of a story; it usually occurs near the end)
The climax to the story is whenever Manley and Joy were in the barn and he takes her fake leg and glasses.
What happens during the resolution of the story?
Joy is left in the barn with literally nothing; no leg and no glasses. Her emotional nothingness is matched with actual physical