osed and he takes full advantage of her. In her head, her leg is what has caused her all her suffering when she was younger. She has always been treated differently and it has been her one handicap. Once she gets her PhD she fees that "education [has] removed the last traces of that as a good surgeon scraped for cancer" (O'conner 402). Untill now, she has covered up her feelings with her education and now Manley has opened her feelings up for the world to see. After offering her a swig of whiskey, he tells her that he is not actually Manley Pointer and that he collects artificial body parts. Not only does he physically run off with her leg, but he also carries her pride along with her. One thing she prides herself in is her uniqueness, especially her belief in nothing. He tells her " You aint so smart. I been believing in nothing ever since I was born!" (O'Conner 404). He outwits her in every way possible. In just one night, she is paid back for all the times she felt superior to her mom and everyone else.
             Joy- Hulga's experience is very similar to the grandmother's in "A Good Man is Hard to Find." At the beginning of the story, the grandmother is already complaining about not wanting to go to Florida for a vacation with her son Bailey and his children. She explains that that is where the Misfit is headed. For endless hours, she babbles on about this plantation with secret passages, when it actually was in Tennessee. The family meets their fate when the grandmother's cat causes a wreck leaving them on the side of the road with no help. They wait on the side of a dirt road that " looked as if no one had traveled on it for months" looking for someone to
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