Ugly

<p>Originally published in the collection Faithless, in Ugly Joyce Carol Oates dissects the psyches of ordinary people and their potential for good and evil with chilling understatement and lasting power, a bitterly angry young woman defines herself as ugly as a way of making herself invulnerable to hurt, and in so doing hurts others.</p> <p>Originally published in the collection Faithless, in Ugly Joyce Carol Oates dissects the psyches of ordinary people and their potential for good and evil with chilling understatement and lasting power, a bitterly angry young woman defines herself as ugly as a way of making herself invulnerable to hurt, and in so doing hurts others.</p>