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Choose three or four characters from Cat’s Cradle and Good Country People and discuss them in terms of existentialism and nihilism? In both Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonegut and Good Country People by Flannery O’Connor the authors show how a character is cor ....

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.... is Newt Hoeniker. In Good Country People, Manly Porter, the nihilist, robs Hulga, the existentialismt. Manly, who appears to be an honest hardworking man, who sells bibles, want to have dinner with Hulga. Hulga agrees to meet Manly because she wants to use him for a test subject in an experiment of seduction, hoping to gain a new experience and also change, what she thinks, his limited way of thinking. She wants to orchestrate this specific plan because she thinks it will be the most successful one at seducing him, which is her primary goal. Hulga tells Manly "take his remorse in hand and change it into a deeper understanding of life, ....