Which excerpt from Flannery O’Connor’s “Good Country People” best identifies the narrative as a piece of Southern gothic literature?

Southern Gothic fiction often combines the familiar setting of the American South with grotesque or unsettling details. Choice B introduces an unusual physical detail—Joy has an artificial leg—which points to the story’s use of the grotesque. The other excerpts focus on character names or beliefs without the same distinctly unsettling detail.

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