who see through to nothing.” First, the italicized preposition highlights an internal conflict. Unconsciously she looks “away” and “down” as if in avoidance. But here, the preposition “through” would suggest that she thinks that her perception penetrates reality to its essence, as opposed to avoiding it. This contradicts the comment the narrator makes, “for she seldom paid close attention to her surroundings.” Next, we find that she does have illusions, because the “green swelling lake” is an illusion brought about by her nearsightedness. Strangely, once she is stripped of her glasses, she is also, by the end of the story, stripped of her leg, and even her mask of ugliness.
In this sense, Pointer has raped Hulga. This paragraph suggests that the evil was perpetrated because she could not see the danger that was in front of her. The message in this story concerns itself with the misconceptions of human nature. It wants us to the doubt the beliefs Mrs. Hopewell thinks to be true, which represent typical stereotypes, that turn out to be outrageously false. What is examined is human nature by the author, Flannery O’Connor, who has such keen eye for it and its weakness and expresses it in the story.
She expresses it in Hulga. By exposing Hulga’s ignorance about the entire world outside of the bubble that her mother has made for her. In the end, Joy Hulga gets her wooden leg and her eyeglasses stolen by Manely Pointer. Perhaps if it weren’t for the dim picture that Hulga’s mother has put in her head, it wouldn’t have been so easy for Manely to steal Hulga’s leg. Hulga’s mother has put a picture in Hulga’s mind that simple country people are good country people.
The Essay on Aeuroedaddy Aeur Story Girl Mother
In the short story, ^aEURoeDaddy^aEUR, by Jan Clausen, the narrator is a young girl with divorced parents. She lives with her biological mother, who is now a lesbian. The mother has a female friend named Carolyn. Carolyn, s relationship with the mother is not clearly defined, but one can assume she is the mother, s new lover. Sundays are the days when the little girl goes to her father, s house, ...
If there is surface message to this story it would be about weaknesses of human nature; however, the real message to this story is that there is no such thing as good country people. In the end, Joy Hulga gets her wooden leg and her eyeglasses stolen by Manely Pointer. Perhaps if it weren’t for the dim picture that Hulga’s mother has put in her head, it wouldn’t have been so easy for Manely to steal Hulga’s leg. Hulga’s mother has put a picture in Hulga’s mind that simple country people are good country people. If there is surface message to this story it would be about weaknesses of human nature; however, the real message to this story is that there is no such thing as good country people.
