SECONDARY SOURCEGood Country People

GUIDING QUESTION

Chose a complex character who might—based on the actions of the character alone—be considered evil or immoral. Explain both the how and why of how the character causes us to react more sympathetically than we might otherwise.

SECONDARY SOURCE MLA CITATION

Asals, Frederick. “The Double.” Modern Critical Views: Flannery O’Connor. Ed. Harold Bloom. Chelsea House Publishers: New York, 1986. Print. 86-105.

SECONDARY SOURCE INFORMATION

“…the unconscious exists in O’Connor’s fiction not as a psychic area to be probed but as a violent force denied.”

The fact that the characters in her works do not allow themselves to feel because of their stubbornness / blindness caused by anger only makes them a more sympathetic character. Hulga’s violent force came from the Bible salesman. She was faced with her biggest “belief” despite the fact that she did not believe in anything.

Hulga’s disadvantage 2A