Although a person likes to think they are in control, life will show them that they have less control than they thought. In “Good Country People” by Flannery O'Connor, the character of Hulga is someone who wants to maintain control in every aspect of her life, for better or for worse. Hulga feels like she is in constant control of her surroundings and her life. However, he doesn't have the control he thinks he has. Hulga's birth name was Joy. When Joy/Hulga was 21, she wanted to show her mother that she was in control by changing her name. Elizabeth Hubbard states that Hulga "triumphs in naming herself not only because it allows her to gain a sense of power over her mother, but also because she feels that she has in some sense created herself" (58). Furthermore, Hulga knew that her mother couldn't do anything about it. However, Hulga is not in control by changing her name, this was an act of rebellion against her mother. Changing her name didn't stop Hulga's mother from calling her Joy. One scholar states, “For all she has done to free herself and create herself as a figure of powerful will, she also continues to be the daughter her mother lost” (Arbery 45). Therefore, Hulga lost control once again. Hulga is thirty-two years old and still lives at home with her mother. The show's Hulga is not in control of her life. He relies heavily on his mother and uses his disability as a crutch to try to maintain control over his mother, so he thinks. Hulga was born with a weak heart and at the age of ten she lost her leg in an accident. Hulga was unable to control the accident which caused her to lose her leg only to have it replaced with an artificial leg. “For Hulga, the artificial leg is in fact the only real part of her, since it is an artificial thing… half of paper… April 2014.Behiling, Laura L. “The Necessity of Disability in 'Good People of campaign' and 'The lame will go in first'." Flannery O'Connor Review 4 (2006): 88-89. MLA international bibliography. Network. 2 April 2014. Edmondson, Henry T. "'Chickens Without Wings': 'Good Country People' and the Seduction of Nihilism." Flannery O'Connor Review 2 (2003): 63-73. MLA international bibliography. Network. April 2, 2014.Gayman, Cynthia. “Hoping for Recognition: The Morality of Perception.” Journal of Speculative Philosophy 25.2 (2011): 148-60. MLA international bibliography. Network. April 2, 2014. Hubbard, Elizabeth. “Blindness and the Beginning of Vision in 'Good Country People.'” Flannery O'Connor Review 9 (2011): 53-68. MLA international bibliography. Network. April 2, 2014.O'Connor, Flannery. "Good country people." The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor. New York: Farrar, 1972. 271-91. Press.