Mrs. Hopewell and Hulga were constantly considering themselves as superior to everyone that surrounded them. Mrs. Hopewell in the sense that she owned land and was of a higher class and Hulga in an intellectual manner. Mrs. Hopewell looked down upon both Mrs. Freeman and Pointer as they were inferior and only put up with them because they were good country people. Hulga felt that through their interaction she had managed to make Pointer fall in love with her. She thought she was always in control because of her knowledge about how the world works. Hulga was thirty-two years old while Pointer was nineteen, she believed that he was a baby because of how innocent and naïve he was. He was inferior to her intellectually and although he did not