Good country people this can mean a lot of different things depending on where you come from. I think it is a complement to be called good country people. I also think this is the way Mrs. Hopewell meant for it to be interpreted as, an honest, hard working, and trustworthy person. Mrs. Hopewell and Mrs. Freeman are a lot alike. They are both nosy people. I believe that’s why they get along so well. I was surprised to see the story turn to Joy I thought it was about Mrs. Hopewell and Mrs. Freeman. As the story turned to Joy I could see why she did some of the things she did. Both she and her mother thought she was an ugly woman because of her wooden leg. Joy changed her name to the ugliest name she could find Hulga, perhaps this was because that’s the way she felt about herself. Although she was well educated, her mother still felt she was dumb. I am sure that must have had an impact on how she felt about herself. When the bible salesman showed up at the door and Mrs. Hopewell invited him for dinner I think it showed how much of a good country person she is. She did not like this young man nor did she want him to stay for dinner, yet she invited him anyway. Hulga was intrigued by the bible salesman, maybe because she was an atheist and he was a Christian, maybe because he had showed an interest in her although she felt she was ugly, or maybe it was because she thought he was a good country person. Either way it allowed her to put her guard down and to trust him. When he meets Hulga at the gate, I also had trusted him. I thought he had brought the case that he carried the bibles in so he could surprise her with a picnic and maybe try and convert her to his beliefs. I still believed he had falling in love with her up until he would not give back her leg. I am still shocked at the way he took her leg and left her in the loft. What kind of man does this to women? What kind of man pretends to sell bibles only to prey on the handicap in order to take their most private belongs as a trophy?
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