Which excerpt from flannery o’connor’s “good country people” best identifies the narrative as a piece of southern gothic literature? joy was her daughter, a blonde girl who had an artificial leg. the reason for her keeping them so long was that they were . . good country people. her name was really joy but as soon as she was twenty-one and away from home, she had had it legally changed. one of her major triumphs was that her mother had not been able to turn her dust into joy.