Where is the foreshadowing of what will ultimately happen to Hulga?what hints are there to suggest that she's really just hiding the facade of...

Flannery O'Connor's "Good Country People" is a story of
the foolhardiness of intellectual pretensions and the odd redemption of a young lady
through her encounter with violence.  Joy, who changes her name to Hulga, is the
grotesque of this Southern Gothic story who in an ironic twist finds herself victimized
when she has herself set out to exploit a young man. 

There
are several suggestions of the susceptibility of Joy to the traveling Bible salesman
that effects her redemption:

• While she has
  changed her name to Hulga, the ugliest she can think of, her doing so is more a show of
  bravado than anything because when Mrs. Freeman uses the
  name, 

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big spectacled Joy-Hulga would scowl and redden
as if her privacy had been intruded upon.  She considered the name her personal
affair.....She saw it as the name of her highest creative
act.

• While Joy
  considers herself an intellectual and Mrs. Hopewell, her mother, recognizes her as
  brillant, Mrs. Hopewell feels that her daughter "didn't have a grain of
  sense."


• Even Joy/Hulga inadvertently indicates her own
  weakness when she becomes angered and blurts out to her
  mother,

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Do you ever look inside and see what you are
not?....we are not our own
light.

• These lines
  are foreshadowing of the delusions of Joy/Hulga who will reach redemption by seeing what
  she is not in the violence perpetuated against her by Manley
  Pointer.


• Her intellectualism and degree in philosophy
  leave Joy/Hulga vulnerable as she considers herself superior to
  others,

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She looked at nice young men as if she could
smell their
stupidity.

• But, as
  one of her books reads, Joy/Hulga embraces the approach of
  Nihilism:

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"We know it by wishing to know nothing of
Nothing," Joy
quotes

• Joy
  foolishly thinks that she will seduce Manley Pointer in order to berate him and expose
  his religious hypocrisy, but, of course, Manley turns her plan around by stealing her
  leg.  This reversal is foreshadowed by Mrs. Freeman's
  remark,

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"Some people are more alike than
others."

• For,
  ironically like Manley, as Joy/Hulga considers her date of the next day as she lies in
  bed, she begins to think of it "as a great joke" because she feels that things are but
  "a matter of the mind's control."


• When Manley Pointer
  slips her glasses into his pocket and Joy/Hulga "didn't realize he had taken her
  glasses," there is sharp foreshadowing of his worst act.  Ironically, then, she tells
  Manley,

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"I don't have illusions. I'm one of those people
who see through to nothing!

"We are
all damned...but some of us have taken off our blindfolds and see that there's nothing
to see.  It's a kind of
salvation."

• Above
  all, Helga is sensitive about the artificial leg "as a peacock about his
  tail."