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statement to others that she must be accepted "Like I am" suggests

that she hasn’t done so herself.

Hulga’s claim to be a nihilist turns out to be little more than a postulate

after she meets the sleazy Bible salesman Manly Pointer.

After he unmasks her plot to seduce him in the hayloft and runs off with her

wooden leg (the support of her belief system), she quickly loses her faith in

her creed of nothingness and relativism. Mr Pointer’s more genuine brand of

nihilism "points" her in the direction of the very traditional moral

values she has always disavowed during family conversations. With the painful

realization that she can no longer classify Manly Pointer as good country

people(a stereotype she previously mocked),she assumes the existence of

objective moral standards.This is no way to treat a defenceless

woman–philosopher or not. The final irony in the story is the result of her

naive participation in this grotesque unhinging of her leg. O’Connor suggests

that now that the double identity of Hulga/Joy has been resolved into a single

self,she can see things in a clearer light. Now that she has been been violated

by a philosopher who lives his ideas, it is impossible for her to continue to

theorize about human behavior in the light of a belief in relativism. The

support holding up this faith in nothingness has been knocked out from beneath

her.Now she may be forced to support herself with something more than a hallow

creed.

 What do you think she learns from Manly Pointer?

 How has this experience in the hayloft changed her philosophical

beliefs or her thoughts on Christianity?

 Do you think it has been the kind of epiphany that will

transform her behavior?__

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