In “Good Country People” Joy-Hulga looks at everyone around her as inferior to herself. Her college education alone makes her feel better then the people she interacts with every day. She has an awful experience that leaves her helpless and alone, but it was not all bad. She learns how demeaning it is to use people and belittle them. She changes mightily because of this. She sees the error of her ways and feels them first hand. Manley Porter changes her. He takes not only her leg, but her pride and dignity as well. She is a sympathetic character because she is really just an insecure girl. Her insecurity is hidden behind her attitude and the way she treats people. Her leg is the object of her insecurity and she it totally dismayed by the awful
