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Good Country People

This story starts with the portrayal of Mrs. Freeman, particularly about her communications with Mrs. Hopewell. She worked for Mrs. Hopewell for the past four years, and the two women frequently talks over breakfast in the Hopewell’s kitchen. Mrs. Hopewell take into consideration that Mrs. Freeman is very nosy, she always knew it, but she employed her and takes pride into dealing with this mischievous behavior by maintaining the daily gossip for Mrs. Freeman’s to be aware of everything. Mrs. Hopewell’s daughter, imposes around the house and stumble into the kitchen one morning while the two ladies were talking. Hulga the daughter was named Joy at birth, and her mother rejects to call her by her birth name, in which she chose that name for its unattractiveness. Now Mrs. Freeman ardors calling her by her birth name Hulga, because she dislikes hearing ugly things. One morning Hulga decides to makes eggs while her mother thinks that perhaps should not have received her Ph.D. in philosophy, because it has not done her any good. Hulga has a fragile heart and almost certainly does
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By now she is really disturbed by his question, so Manly drops the topic. When they finally get to the verge of the woods, he began to kiss her; Hulga has by no means ever been kissed before by a boy and this has not specifically impressed her. So they goes inside of the barn to sit down, they both climbed up the ladder to the attic. Hulga and Manly lies down and began to embrace each other with kisses in the attic, after some time has passed Manley petitions to her that she needs to say to him that she loves him. She undoubtedly approves what he has spoken to her, but she timidly, started to develop some sort of disappointment towards him because she reflects to the night that he told her mother that he was born a “poor

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