Joy views herself as completely grotesque. (T) At the age of ten, Joy was in a hunting accident where she lost her leg. As soon as she turned twenty-one and got away from home, Joy changed her name to Hulga just because it sounds ugly. Joy’s altered name is a reflection

Joy has acquired a great deal of education which limits her from relating to her mother’s and the Freeman family’s southern mentality and mindset. (T) She earned a Ph.D. in philosophy, and her wide readings in secular philosophy confirm her inherent convictions, which fall somewhere between atheism, existentialism, and skepticism. Coming from such a rural background, she feels that her education raises her status in the intellectual world, and therefore life in general, above anyone not as educated as she is. The young woman fails to see that there is much more to life than what you can learn in a book.

Had been deceived by Pointer, it forced Hulga to realize that people skills are crucial in navigating the real world, and that people somet

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