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Good Country People Characters
In "Good Country People," Flannery O'Connor introduces the reader to Hulga Hopewell, a sullen thirty-two year old atheist, who embodies a complex mixture of unsympathetic and sympathetic traits. Hulga’s arrogant confidence that she is intellectually and morally superior to those around her characterizes her as unlikable and unsympathetic. She boldly wears her godless beliefs with little regard for offending those around her. As an illustration, she changes her beautiful name, Joy, to Hulga to spite her mother and considers the ugly name change "one of her major triumphs." She slyly manipulates Mrs. Freeman's rambling conversations to avoid answering her mother's questions about her interest in Manley Pointer, the phony Bible salesman.
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