The story "Good Country People" does not refer to eating wood. The title of Flannery O'Connor's story is intended as irony. The religious mother, Mrs. Hopewell, meets what seems like a nice young man, Manley Pointer, who apparently seeks to spread "the word." Manley carries a Bible and presents himself as a God-fearing paragon of virtue. Mrs. Hopewell's daughter, Joy, is an arrogant, condescending atheist, who holds firm to the belief...
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