O'Connor's Good Country People
Damian Carpenter "Woman, Do You Ever Look Inside?" There are many themes within Flannery O'Connor's short story "Good Country People". Religion is definitely one of the more prominent themes that the story holds. Like most of O'Connor's works, it plays a big part in the actions or characteristics of the main characters. This is all on the surface however. The more important and less accentuated theme is the various facades the characters create for themselves. These facades prevent them from facing their true "grotesque" selves. These facades also hide their weaknesses that they have no wish to face ort just can't understand. People must be comfortable with every aspect of themselves, because certain people, who in this story are represented by Manley Pointer's character, can easily exploit their weaknesses. He's "good country people" and "the salt of the earth" as Mrs. Hopewell refers to Manley Pointer who really is a demon that they must
Altogether this is her true weakness that is taken advantage of by Manley Pointer. Hopewell betrays her true vision of a situation. She is one of those people who are all goody-goody to people who they view as less fortunate. He seems to be an almost omniscient character, which would fall in line with a powerful type of being. Hopewell is still clouded by her weakness and refers to Manly as simple as he passes through a field by Mrs. Manley Pointer exploits joy-Hulga's weakness to the fullest extent, because she never sees it coming. At the end of the story, we see that Mrs. Her weakness is the feeling of power she believed she gained from her studies. She lets her guard down because she feels in such great control and becomes comfortable with Manley. Hopewell, "Woman, do you ever look inside?" she should've taken her own advice. She's a person that commends or speaks for the people she knows nothing about.
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