"Good Country People"

The phrase "good country people" is repeated over and over in the story to get it across to the audience who the characters in the story think are good people. It helped the audience get a feel on what the characters meant by saying 'good country people," and its repetition made it seem like there's not many people who are considered "good." Mrs. Hopewell even says to the boy, which ends up being ironic because of who he turns out to be, how "there aren't enough good country people in the world."Mrs. Hopewell at first describes the Bible sales boy as a good person, but then he ends up being a heartless thief. I think the story's irony is meant to show how people can often time judge people the wrong way. Both Mrs. Hopewell and Hulga judged the sales boy wrong, and their wrong judgement ended with Hulga in a bad situation.