This short story provided excellent descpitions of beliefs and betrayal in the characters. By using this form, flannery O’Connor gives the story a sense of reality. Appearing to be the narrator of this story Mrs. Hopewell is divorced with one child. She is a woman of great patience who believes the “everybody’s different,” and “It takes all kinds to make the world.” Mrs. Hopewell befriended the freeman’s, in which she claims are her idea of good country people. Her daughter joy is a thirty two year old with a P.H.D in philosophy. The highly educated blonde changed her name legally to Hulga, at twenty-one. Joy believed Hulga described her better, but Mrs. Hopewell despised it. hulga had and artificial leg and a heart condition. The doctors predicted hulga would only live to forty-five. It is because of this Mrs. Hopewell still treats joy as her little girl. (O’Conner pg.130-143)
I chose this short story because it expressed the common facts of reality. Mrs. Hopewell once said, “good country people are hard to find and once you find them you better hang on to them.” I can relate to this quote because my family has a history with this experience. My grandfather was the bread maker of my mother’s family. He was the sweetest and most patient man I had ever met. He would be kind to any and everyone in exchange for their friendship. Out of the nine kids him and my grandmother birth, only one heavily took this quality, my mother. My mother, just like my grandfather, would give the shirt off her back. I suppose this trait would have started from, my great grandmother, to my grandfather, to my mother and finally me.
What makes this trait so important and fragile is not many have it. The fragile part is so many people tend to take advantage of this quality. My mother was probably the fir
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