Compare And Contrast Between Freeman And Mrs. Hopewell

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Mrs. Freeman and Mrs. Hopewell take care of "important business" every morning over breakfast. Mrs. Hopewell gets up every morning at 7:00am and lights the heaters. Afterwards she gossips with Mrs. Freeman. Joy, who is thirty-two years old is Mrs. Hopewell's daughter and extremely educated, takes her time coming in. Mrs. Freeman has two teenage daughters, one married and pregnant, and one not. The girls are a big topic of conversation. Mrs. Hopewell employs the Freeman's and they've worked out because they are good country people. Before the Freeman's came, people had only worked for Mrs. Hopewell for a year at most. Joy is a fairly grumpy lady, but her mother lets her be because she has a wooden leg. When she was ten her leg was shot in a …show more content…

Manley opens his Bible to remove whiskey, cards, and condoms. Hulga is not impressed and demands her leg back and loses all romantic spirit. Manley packs up his things along with her leg. He tells her that he is just as smart as he is because has fooled her and stolen her leg. He is also an even bigger believer in nothing than she is, his bible sales is all a scam. Through the loft opening, Hulga watches Manley leave. Mrs. Hopewell and Mrs. Freeman watch him leave too. Mrs. Hopewell thinks he was selling bibles to the black people who live in that direction. It's not clear what Mrs. freeman thinks but she gets the last word in the story. I expected this story to be about some weird Amish country people, but it ended up being slightly different. I believe the motive of this story is to present the idea that not everyone is what they seem. Manley, when first presented, seems like a kind man who sells bibles, and what could be more holy than that kind of work? He also spends time with Hulga and gets to know her despite her disability. Then in the end steals her fake leg and tells her that he is smarter than her and believes in nothing more than she does. So, he is, in fact, the least holy man of

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