Ms. Hopewell, the eternally helpful and kind character, wakes up at seven each morning to light the heaters in her and Joy's rooms. Joy shows her gratitude by stomping her artificial leg unnecessarily on the way to the bathroom and then slamming the door upon her arrival. She often has outbursts when her mother asks her to walk to the fields. She even changed her name from Joy to Hulga when she was away at college, and her mother is convinced that...