Good Country People

There are several conflicts in Good Country People. There is Hulga's irritation with Mrs. Freeman, there is Mrs. Hopewell's distaste for her daughter's new name. There is also Mrs. Freeman's 15 year old daughter who is pregnant. But the most interesting conflict seems to be the belief in nothing. Hulga doesn't believe in God and she seems proud of this. She feels that this belief protects her from being disappointed in life. Since she lost her leg at the age of ten, she has had a different life then most people. She is thirty in the story and has gotten used to just having one leg, however, she gets tricked by a bible salesman, who it turns out also believes in nothing. The bible salesman steals poor Hulga's leg from her and leaves her with one leg in the loft of a barn.