Character Analysis Of Joy Hulga

Joy-Hulga does not hope well for the people around her. For her, life is beyond hope, or belief in anything. In her mind this indifference makes her vastly superior to those around her. O’Connor depicts Joy-Hulga as person deformed physically and spiritually. Although she is highly educated, she lives an unproductive and unhappy life. A state she blames on a weak hart and a missing leg. Conditions that can be seen as allegorical to her presumptuous, embittered nature. She is joyless, relegating herself to the company of individuals who she feels cannot, “understand her, because of her superior intellect. She expects that they are inferior because of their “simple ways”, their religious beliefs, and their lack of education. For Joy-Hulga Hopewell believing in nothing is her accomplishment, accomplishment as a philosopher.

Hulga had been missing for three days when Mrs. Hopewell received a call from the police. Shortly after Hulga had gone missing, Mrs. Hopewell jumped to the conclusion that her daughter was in danger; as a result, she quickly notified the police about her daughter’s disappearance. Over the phone, an officer told Mrs. Hopewell that they had arrested a man whom they believed had something to do with Hulga’s disappearance.

Serena Joy is the most powerful female presence in the hierarchy of Gileadean women; she is the central character in the dystopian novel, signifying the foundation for the Gileadean regime. Atwood uses Serena Joy as a symbol for the present dystopian society, justifying why the society of Gilead arose and how its oppression had infiltrated the lives of unsuspecting people.

As a grown woman, she didn’t want to be perceived as a child even with “.an artificial leg” (O’Connor 1). Combining the fact of her age-related conduct with her mother as well as her disability, Joy didn’t want to lead the life that was created for her. She didn’t feel seen or heard as herself in the world and it seemed as though everyone saw her just as her mother did, leading her to decide to change her name entirely after she left home. Following her name change, Hulga felt as though it was her finally taking control of her own life and treating it as so. She felt as though this was a way of choosing her own destiny, it unfortunately didn’t shield her from naivety and emphasized her lack of self-awareness.

Joy-Hulga is astounded at the change: "Aren't you just good country people?" she cries. "You're a fine Christian!" (467). Joy-Hulga has found herself in a situation where no amount of college education could help her.

Exploitation is a tough game to play unless you have the right cards. “Good Country People,” by Flannery O'Connor, exposes the prideful, arrogant, selfish Hulga. Hulga is the sort of person who places herself on a momentous pedestal, and her doctoral degree in philosophy adds glamour to her self image; giving her more of a reason to look down on people for being intellectually inferior. Originally, her birth name was Joy but because her name did not reflect who she is, she decided to change it to something more vulgar to fit her personality; it was an added bonus that it also upset her mother, someone who she truly despises. At a glance, Hulga seems to be in pursuit of love, but a closer reading suggest that her true cynical goal is to manipulate

Hulga concerns herself with what is which relates the her disdainful rejection of the spiritual, so Hulga takes from the passage exactly what Heidegger is arguing against. (Hubbord, p53) Hulga is ethically problematic but nonetheless useful in O’ Connor’s vision of the damning and damned, universe.” She is disabled and physically carries the stigma of abnormality, metaphorically emboding the “sins” of the world with her.” (Behling p.88) “Hulga is a 32 year-old with a Ph.D. in philosophy and an artificial leg. Because of her weak heart, she lives at home with her mother, if not for her condition, Hulga “would be for from these red hills and good country people. She would be in a university lecturing to people who knew what she was talking about”. (Behling p.88) Hulga’s commitment to nihilism is not so absolute as to give pointer such and unqualified claim, though as the story demonstrates, she has flirted with a force she does not understand and which is competent to violate her soul in a most obscene manner, thus exposing its emptiness.(Edmondson III, p.158) The remainder of the story is a study in manipulation, seduction and subjugation with Pointer as the teacher. Hulga becomes vulnerable because, of her empty wounded state of psyche. “Spiritually and physically crippled” “a wooden part of her soul that correspondes to her wooden leg.” (Behling p.158) Hulga’s physical afflictions her heart condition,

Because of her poor self-image, Hulga Hopewell melts as soon as she sees that the Bible salesman thinks that she is beautiful. He looks at her in a way that no one else ever has before. Manley Pointer not only smiles at her, but gazes at her in admiration and tenderness. The mere idea that this Bible salesman would be drawn to her leaves Hulga in complete astonishment and wonder. The narrator describes Hulga's fascination with the boy's fondness by saying, "It was like surrendering to him completely. It was like losing her own life and finding it again, miraculously, in his" (141). No one, including her mother, had ever seen Hulga as beautiful. For this reason, Manley easily wins her trust, and ultimately, tricks her. Hulga's immediate surrender to Manley

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