Question

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.

Answer 1

The correct answer is The reason for her keeping them so long was that they were . . . good country people.

This type of a sentence form, with ellipses and everything, creates a sort of a tension while reading and in the right mood can even be creepy. That's quite common for gothic literature.