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Good Country People

O'Connor's " Good Country People " is a story about the relationship between main character Joy who changes her name later and her mother Mrs. Hopewell, also people surrounding them. The other important characters are Mrs. Freeman who is hired by Mrs. Hopewell and Manley Pointer who deceits Joy by pretending "good country people".
All four character have different personality and distinct feeling about the others, may be some of them are misunderstanding or completely prejudice or insult, scorn, disrespectÂ…
I think that the relationships between each people are literally superficial, since even mother and child don't know well each other, the mother even does not tries to under stand, for instance when Mrs. Hopewell finds Joy's philosophy book in her room, she feels " it seemed to her " an evil incantation in gibberish" In this story, the distance between them can be inferred from some their action, attitude, conversation. Even in the end of the story, she never understand about......


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