Good Country People
It is very difficult to define what a Christian redemption is, let alone compare it to the situation Joy/Hulga experienced in the short story Good Country People.O’Connor writes a cynical story about Joy and her life as she lives her life like a passenger sitting in the big car of life. Joy/Hulga is an atheist and a philosopher, who spends all her time reading books and has earned a PH.D. In the latter portion of the story Joy/Hulga follows a bible selling honest man into a barn, where he takes off the mask ofhis facade and takes Joy/Hulga’s fake leg. She is left to die in the barn and in someway this outcome fits the mantra of most Christian story’s where people end up getting what they deserve. Joy/Hulga was wasting her life so here life was worth ending… (I believe this was the point O’Connor was making.) Now with different locales the idea of the Christian philosophy is very apparent in the south or country area comparing to different standards elsewhere. To be perfectly honest I find the connection between any sort of redemption and any occurrence of the story Good Country People hard to grasp.
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