Good Country People

        In this short story, we never really know what happens to Hulga (also known as Joy.) The story ends with Manley leaving Hulga trapped up in the loft in the barn. We as a reader are left wondering if her mother and mother's employee realize the Hugla has gone missing and where she is, is Hulga able to climb down the latter, or does she die up there unable to climb down with out her glasses and leg. 
       Another question I as a reader am wondering, did Manley "stalk" Hulga before he went to her house to con her and her mother. Hulga had a heart condition. Manley used a scenario that he too had a heart condition, and this why he was trying to make some money by selling Bibles. As a reader I feel that to make Manley seem more horrid and creepy we as an audience get the feeling, that he did "stalk" Hulga to find out what makes her the way she is. What makes her so cold. He used her insecurity to get into her head mentally and emotionally. 
      Honestly I feel as if Manley isn't the only villain to this story. Hulga's stupidity doesn't make me as a reader sympathize with her one bit. What women in her right mind tells a guy she barley knows that she loves him. What girl makes herself so vulnerable just to make a man, that she just met happy. She took off her leg and glasses just to "please" him. That just seems so pathetic. At first I had some sympathy toward Hulga, she had a bad attitude because she was dealt a bad card in life, but watching her let her guard down, for a con man. That is where she lost my sympathy. Don't get me wrong I'm one of the biggest hopeless romantics around, but I even thought that Hulga was utterly pathetic. 
      I know this isn't much but I was left with so many questions at the end of the stories, I would like you as readers to let me know on what your take, and thoughts were about the ending and of Hulga's choices.