Essay On Good Country People

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Comparing Stories “Good Country People” is a story of how a selfish yet smart young woman, who likes to use her disability to make others feel guilty, is left vulnerable by a man she thought was purely good. In “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” a grandmother and her family go on a trip that is set to doom them forever. The grandmother lies and makes her family go down a road that ends up being to nowhere then they run into a horrible man called “The Misfit” who has just broke out of prison. Their destiny is to die the minute “The Misfit” finds them (O’Conner 422). Although “Good Country People” and “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” have the same author they are very similar in many elements in the fact that they have a similar theme, setting and point of view. Both of the stories have a theme of repenting protagonists in response to the wrongful deeds committed by the antagonists who do not believe in anything. The theme in “Good Country People” is revealed when Joy-Hulga becomes completely…show more content…
“A Good Man Is Hard to Find” and “Good Country People” are both set in the rural south in the 1950’s. The setting in “Good Country People” can be determined by the characters informal and colloquial diction and terms they use to describe the location. One sign that lets the readers know about the setting of “Good Country People” is when Joy-Hulga talks about her condition; “Joy had made it plain that if it had not been for this condition, she would be far from these red hills and good country people” (O’Conner 436-437). The way readers can identify that “A Good Man Is Hard To Find” has the same setting is when Grandmother and the kids argue because the kids are talking negative about their home state and where they are driving to. At one point in the argument the Grandmother says, “’I wouldn’t talk about my native state that way…Georgia has the hills’” (O’Conner

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