Good Country People :: Literary Analysis, Oconnor

In Flannery OConnors stories, Good Country People, Everything that Rises Must suffer, A Good Man is Hard to Find, and The Life You execute May Be Your Own, there ar m each correspondent characters and situations. Few, if any of the characters are likeable, and most of them are grotesque. both of the stories have characters that follow themselves as superior in one way or an other(a)(prenominal) to those around them, and in some cases these characters experience a downfall, illustrating the old proverb, vanity goeth before a fall (King James Bible ,Proverbs 1618). Two of the stories include a character that has some type of disability, three of the stories pillow slip a very turbulent relationship between a put up and child, and three of the stories contain a character that could easily be describe as evil. In Good Country People there are two characters who believe that they are superior to others. Mrs. Hopewell describes herself as having no worse qualities of her own (DiY anni pg.189). She also takes it upon herself to categorize the people she meets as either, good acres people or trash, (pg.188, 189).There do not seem to be any shades of grey in her thinking. cheer/Hulga Hopewell also sees herself as superior, solely her superiority lies in her intellect. She makes it known that were it not for her ill health she would be at a university teaching people who knew what she was talking about (pg. 191). Although Joy/Hulga believes herself to be intellectually superior she is fooled by the Bible salesman to such an boundary that he is able to steal her wooden leg (pg. 200).Everything that Rises Must run across also contains two supposedly superior characters, Julian and his mother. Julians mother believes that she is superior because her grandfather was a former governor, a lucky landowner with two-hundred slaves. She also believes that being white makes her superior to people of other races. She believes that those people should rise, but on thei r own side of the fence (pg. 214). afterwards in the story she offends a Negro woman by her patronize treatment of the womans child. This woman is so upset that she physically attacks Julians mother (pg. 221). Julian also sees himself as superior. He feels superior to his mother because he does not see himself as racist. In reality he is as much a racist as his mother, but he shows his racism in a different way, want out those who he terms some of the better types to befriend (pg.