I've been trying to figure out what the plot is in "Good Country People", and I'm coming up empty.Flannery O'Connor

With the irony of the title of Flannery O'Connor's novel,
the reader is pointed in the right direction for an understanding of the narrative that
revolves around the main character Joy, who renames herself Hulga. Hulga is an O'Connor
character who is a soul torn between heaven and hell, looking for solace in her
high-held and vain intellectualism.  For, she believes herself superior to the "good
country people" who are simple and uneducated.  But, when the itinerant Bible salesman
Manley Pointer steals Hulga's artificial leg, which has made her different, he takes
away her individuality.  Then, humbled by her gullibility, she is left with nothing to
believe in.  Yet, with her nothingness she is finally open to believe in something else
even if it is evil.  This is what O'Connor means by the comments of Mrs. Hopewell and
Mrs. Freeman about being "simple."