Manley Pointer

When she turned her churning face toward the opening, she saw his blue figure struggling successfully over the green speckled lake.” Even though they both play the antagonist, the story ends differently for both women. The Grandmother was shot and killed, while the Manley Pointer left Hulga alive, only leaving with her wooden leg. Another comparison between the two is that they both have done this before. This wasn’t the Misfits first kill, and this wasn’t Manley Pointer’s first time harassing a woman and taking a token. Pointer says, “I’ve gotten a lot of interesting things,” he said. “One time I got a woman’s glass eye this way. And you needn't to think you‖ll catch me because Pointer ain’t really my name. I use a different name at every house I call at and don’t stay nowhere long.” While in ‘A Good Man is Hard to Find’ we learn in the beginning that the Misfit is a serial killer. The Grandmother says, "Here this fellow that calls himself The Misfit is aloose from the Federal Pen and headed toward Florida and you read here what it says he did to these people. Just you read it. I wouldn't take my children in any direction with a criminal like that aloose in it. I

Hulga from “ Good Country People” described as manipulative and compulsive, but at the end she became vulnerable. Mrs. Hopewell stated “ Whenever she looked at Joy this way, she could not help but feel that it would have been better if the child had not taken the Ph.D. It had certainly not brought her out any…” (175) The reason for Hugla’s false view of reality is because she has obtained a Ph.D. degree in philosophy, causing her to misunderstand the true value of life. Early on in the novel for Hugla you can’t find the irony behind her false reality, until she meets the bible salesman who corrupts her beliefs. “ I don’t have illusions. I’m one of those people who see through to nothing.”(183) At this point in the novel she still believes she is a rationalist, through every situation she is in, especially, when she doesn’t tell the bible salesman that she loves him. She doesn’t wish to use

In addition to the characterization of Joy-Hulga O’Connor’s depiction of Mrs. Hopewell creates irony that begins with her names. Like joy, Mrs. Hopewell, is full of the same limiting perceptions of those around her. Demonstrated by the belief that country people are “good”, or the “salt of the earth.” In much the same way Joy’s impairment results in Mrs. Hopewell’s perpetual assumption that joy is like a child. She regards her with

Hulga ask Manley on their outing the next why he brought his case with the Bibles to which he replies, “You can never tell when you’ll need the word of God, Hulga” (O’Connor, 454). They go in an abandoned old barn where he tricks her to climbing a ladder to a loft. He even drags his heavy case up to the loft. He keeps up his Choir boy act so that she will not expect what he is truly up to. They make it up to the loft and began kissing and somewhere along the way it seems Hulga is falling for the boy, as she admits her age and her intelligence to him. She is starting to strip away her mask with her honesty leaving her more vulnerable. He starts to take interest in her wooden leg and asking her about it in a gentle sort of way seeming that he wants to know every part of her. “She decided that for the first time in her life she was face to face with real innocence” (O’Connor, 456). She allows him to take her wooden leg off leaving her totally vulnerable in a loft off the ground. “Without the leg she felt entirely dependent on him” (O’Connor, 457). Manley opens his Bible case, “It was hollow and contained a pocket flask of whiskey, a pack of cards, and a small blue box with printing on it” (O’Connor, 457). Hulga is shocked by what she sees and Manley’s mask is revealed. He is an imposter, a swindler, a sinner, an unbeliever, and he

This question can be seen as a follow up question of the first. If there are any negative aspects she sees in life, this question will present the details.

contrary, she knows what she wants her life to hold, and she leaps for it.

danger and in need of help, and she gives her help despite the risks that come with it.

The short story “Good Country People” by Flannery O’Connor reveals that evil comes in many disguises and that it will try to harm believers and even nonbelievers. Manley Pointer’s character serves as evil and is similar to the serpent in the bible. Manley Pointer has crafty evil ways, he is malicious, and deceitful just as the serpent was to Adam and Eve in the Bible.

Atwood demonstrates a sense of hatred and jealousy within Serena Joy, which is directed towards Offred as she is unintentionally an intruder and is invading Serena Joy’s private life. Eventually, this jealousy enables Serena Joy to try to obliviate Offred by “fixing it up with Nick”. Also, Serena Joy indicates that she is willing to “help” Offred by showing her a “picture”, “something you want”. However, all these actions are a result of Serena Joy’s self-interest and her manipulative personality, “there’s a hint of her former small-screen mannequin’s allure, flickering over her face like momentary static”. Consequently, Atwood highlights Serena Joy’s “roguish” actions caused by jealousy and a desire for revenge upon the very person who has been deprived her of possession of the Commander; she deliberately withheld the news of Offred’s lost daughter and the photograph that Offred has been longing for.

After dinner Manley Pointer secretly asks Joy/Hulga to go on a picnic with him the next day. She agrees and during the night she plans to seduce him. She imagines that she easily seduces him and that then, “of course, she had to reckon with his remorse.'; Being of superior intellect she imagines that she takes his remorse in hand and changes it into a

As the girl continues on to grow up she is continually facing challenges with her confidence and thus affecting her emotionally and physically. For instance, one of the line states that “ she went to

see. Through it she sees all that she could be and everything that she could have. But she says

feared for the scowl on her face that was actually only the result of a chronic squint due to her poor

that she has an influence on her own future.  She begins to develop what she

cope with the events in her life because she was so adapted to being told how to think and