Analysis Of The Poem Hulga s Spiritual Blindness

Thesis: Hulga’s spiritual blindness is also the ending of this story. Hulga concerns herself with what is which relates the her disdainful rejection of the spiritual, so Hulga takes from the passage exactly what Heidegger is arguing against. (Hubbord, p53) Hulga is ethically problematic but nonetheless useful in O’ Connor’s vision of the damning and damned, universe.† She is disabled and physically carries the stigma of abnormality, metaphorically emboding the â€Å"sins† of the world with her.† (Behling p.88) â€Å"Hulga is a 32 year-old with a Ph.D. in philosophy and an artificial leg. Because of her weak heart, she lives at home with her mother, if not for her condition, Hulga â€Å"would be for from these red hills and good country people. She would be in a university lecturing to people who knew what she was talking about†. (Behling p.88) Hulga’s commitment to nihilism is not so absolute as to give pointer such and unqualified claim, though as the story demonstrates, she has flirted with a force she does not understand and which is competent to violate her soul in a most obscene manner, thus exposing its emptiness.(Edmondson III, p.158) The remainder of the story is a study in manipulation, seduction and subjugation with Pointer as the teacher. Hulga becomes vulnerable because, of her empty wounded state of psyche. â€Å"Spiritually and physically crippled† â€Å"a wooden part of her soul that correspondes to her wooden leg.† (Behling p.158) Hulga’s physical afflictions her heart condition,