Good Country People Summary

In the story Good Country People, joy lives with her mother on their farm. She has glasses, a heart problem, and lost her leg in a hunting accident. She now has a prosthetic leg that she takes very fond to and treats it as the most sacred thing in her life. Her mother tries to help her with everything throughout her day but hulga only wants to complain and fight with her. She also has a PHD and all she does is sit in her house and read all day and every day. She is visited by a Bible salesman one day and she invites him to dinner. They plan a date for the next day and hulga is very excited. That night she things to herself that she could seduce him and make him like her. The day of the date he takes her into the barn loft where he precedes to take off her glasses then her fake leg. He then puts it into his case between some alcohol and some porno cards. He tells her that he goes around stealing prosthetics from people and that she will never see it again because everywhere he goes he uses a different name. She is left in the barn helpless and without her leg. In the end she thought he was Good Country People but it turns out he wasn't.