Good Country People In Flannery O’Connor’s short story “Good Country People,” Hulga spends her whole life denying and rebelling against her mother’s hopeful attitude. Hulga is a thirty-two-year-old with a Ph.D. who lost her leg in a hunting accident at the age of ten and who also suffers from a heart condition. Still, living with her mother makes her have a bad outlook on life and those around her. O’Connor …showed first 75 words of 747 total…

…showed last 75 words of 747 total…the outside. There is hope for Hulga if she changes her outlook on all other people and realizes that no one person has all the answers to life’s questions. The lesson to be learned is that not one person can always be a good judge of character; sometimes it takes more then one person to see the whole picture. As Mrs. Freeman says “Some can’t be that simple, I know I never could”(143). .