Good COuntry People

The title is ironic because Pointer ends up deceiving Hulga in the end, and isn't really a good honest plain country person like they all think. Hulga actually thinks she likes him but then he steals her leg and says he doesn't believe in the Bible, he's just selling them. The names are important because names are a symbol of identity and relation, but when you lie about your name you lie about your identity, which also throws others off and makes them not believe anything else you may have said. What's in a name? Names have meanings and names have backgrounds, but once a name becomes a lie it's all discredited. Think about in a movie when one character lies to another about their names, and all the while the audience knows what the real name is, we don't want that other character to trust the lying one! I'm sympathetic to Hulga because of her leg and more so because she trusts the Bible salesman. She seems to not really open up to anyone, even the people she lives with and her own mother, that her deciding to sneak out with this boy, kiss him, think about seducing him and overall trusting him when she removes her leg she is then taken advantage of. Now she's never going to take that leg off again for anyone, especially another guy. Her distrust of boys is even deeper now, further then mentioned earlier in the story.