She believes herself to be a true genius and later attempts to educate Manley. "True genius can get an idea across even to an inferior mind." This allows the reader to see how at face value, Hulga makes herself superior to everyone else. Internally, however, it is not the same. "If you want me, here I am-LIKE I AM," Hulga ironically tells her mother. However, how can Hulga be expected to be taken as she is, when she doesn't fully accept herself. Found deep within the core, Hulga bares insecurities and repressed anger, both of which arose from the accident which left her disabled with a wooden leg. Evidently, Hulga's carried the burden of her wooden leg on one shoulder. For the most part, Hulga's bitter disposition keeps her at home reading, seeing as to how she dislikes "flowers birds and even young men." Ultimately, Hulga is embarrassed of her deformity, leaving her with a flood of insecurities, though her
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