What
a weird story. It took me awhile to
figure out where O’Connor was going with this story. However, about halfway through I got a really
bad feeling that it wasn’t going to end well.
Sadly, this turned out to be true.
As much as I wanted Joy/Helga to not be so naïve, she kind of let me
down. Although she thought she was so intelligent,
her became a little overconfident and ended up getting burned.
I really liked how O’Connor kept
up the suspicion of the Bible salesman throughout the story. Although readers begin to distrust this
character early on, O’Connor does a great job of making us question if he truly
is the bad guy in the story. Even in the
moments before he betrays Joy/Helga, readers are secretly hoping he is actually
a good guy. This characteristic of the
short story made for a really good read.
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