O'Connor, "Good Country People"

"Mrs. Hopewell thought of her as a child though she was thirty two years old and highly educated." (O'Conner, 168)

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/TiffanyGilbert/2008/03/irony_and_no_good_country_peop.html

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"Her voice when she spoke hand an almost pleading sound. 'Aren't you,' she murmured, 'aren't you just good country people?'...'Yeah,' he said, curling his lip slightly, 'but it ain't held me back none. I'm as good as you any day in the week.'" (O'Connor, GCP, pg. 193)
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/MadelynGillespie/2008/03/good_just_might_not_be_good_en.html

"You ain't so smart. I been believing in nothing ever since I was born" (O'Connor 194).

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/EthanShepley/2008/03/unbelief.html

"Mrs. Hopewell had no bad qualities of her own but she was able to use other people's in such a constructive way that she never left the lack...Nothing is perfect" (Good Country People 169).

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AngelaPalumbo/2008/03/if_youre_seeking_perfection_th.html

"[Hulga] thought this was funny; Mrs. Hopewell that it was idiotic and showed simply that she was still a child. She was brilliant but she didn't have a grain of sense" (O'Connor "Good Country People", pg 175)

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AllisonHall/2008/03/book_smarts_vs_common_sense.html

“Mrs. Hopewell would say ‘If you can’t come pleasantly, I don’t want you at all’? to which the girl…would reply, ‘If you want me, here I am—LIKE I AM’" (O'Connor 171).
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/GretaCarroll/2008/03/like_mother_like_daughter.html

"Besides the neutral expression that she wore when she was alone, Mrs. Freeman had two others, forward and reverse, that she used for all her human dealings. Her forward expression was steady and driving like the advance of a heavy truck. Her eyes never swerved to left or right but turned as the story turned as if they followed a yellow line down the center of it." p.167

"Mrs. Freeman's gaze drove forward and just touched him before he disappeared under the hill." p.195

-From Flannery O'Connor's "Good Country People" in A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/EricaGearhart/2008/03/ambiguity_in_oconnor.html

“ she was quicker than Mr. Freeman.”(170) “It was hard for Mrs. Hopewell to realize that her child was thirty-two now and that for more than twenty years she had had only one leg.” (171) “Then She had gone and had the beautiful name, joy, changed with out telling her mother until after she had done it”
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/KayleyDardano/2008/03/common_themes_in_oconnor_short.html
“Mrs. Hopewell had no bad qualities of her own but she was able to use other people’s in such a constructive way that she never felt the lack.”(169)
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/KayleyDardano/2008/03/everyone_has_bad_qualities.html

“She murmured, ‘aren’t you just good country people?’… ‘Yeah,’ he said, curling his lip slightly, ‘but it ain’t held me back none. I’m as good as you any day in the week’” (O’Connor 193).
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/KaitlinMonier/2008/03/hulga_and_the_boy_are_two_peas.html

"Besides the neutral expression that she wore when she was alone, Mrs. Freeman had two others, forward and rerverse, that she used for all her human dealings" (167).
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/RichelleDodaro/2008/03/youre_simple.html

Real life, different times.....

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/DeanaKubat/2008/03/true_life_true_things.html

"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 and now that she had it, there was no more excuse for her to go to school again. Mrs. Hopewell thought it was nice for girls to go to school to have a good time but Joy had 'gone through'" (O'Connor 173-174).

Get educated on this quote:
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/LaurenMiller/2008/03/education_vs_flirtation.html

“Mrs. Hopewell had no bad qualities of her own but she was able to use other people in such a constructive way that she had kept them four years.” (O’Connor 69)

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AngelicaGuzzo/2008/03/the_flawed.html

"When all of him had passed but his head, he turned and regarded her with a look that no longer had any admiration in it" (O'Connor 194).
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JulianaCox/2008/03/pointer_played_her_like_a_deck.html

"Nothing is perfect. This is one of Mrs. Hopewell's favorite sayings. Another was: that is life! And still another, the most important, was: well other people have their opinions too (O'connor 169)."

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/StephanieWytovich/2008/03/life_is_a_game.html

Then on what seemed an insuck of breath, he whispered, “You ever eat a chicken that was two days old?”
The girl looked at him stonily. He might have just put this question up for consideration at the meeting of a philosophical association. “Yes,” she presently replied as if she had considered all angles.
“It must have been mighty small,” he said triumphantly… (O’Connor 185).

Have you eaten a two day old chicken? If you think you haven't, read my blog and think again...

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JeanineONeal/2008/03/breaking_through_her_shell.html