Good Country People and Those Who Hate Them In Flannery O'Connor's "Good Country People," the protagonist Hulga, spends her entire adult life doing her best to deny and rebel against her mother's optimistic attitude. Hulga is a highly educated southern woman who lost her leg in an accident at the age of ten and suffers from a heart ailment. Due to these hardships, at thirty-two she still lives with her mother. The highly educated Hulga …showed first 75 words of 672 total…

…showed last 75 words of 672 total…too is an atheist, that he does not really love her, and that he is actually a pervert and an impostor who collects women's artificial body parts. Hulga’s introduction to reality is humiliating. Whether or not she learns from this painful experience is a question left unanswered. There is hope for her if she sheds her air of intellectual superiority and realizes that no one person has all of the answers to life's questions.