Turpin's self-centeredness and obsession with being seen as a high-class person prevents her from realizing how trashy she truly is. For example, in her attempt to start a conversation with the well-dressed woman, she begins by saying that her husband has a leg ulcer and explains how he got the ulcer (O'Connor). Proper hospital waiting room etiquette is not to tell anyone why you are seeking treatment because no one except the doctor wants to know. Worse yet, Claude then pulls up his pant leg to show the purple bulge (O'Connor). It's extremely unclassy to say why you're going to the doctor, and it's extremely unclassy to show what the problem is. Although Claud is not Mrs. Turpin, she considers him to be as classy as she is, because the couples are in the same class of house and land owners. Unaware of how unattractive a purple welt looks to other people in the waiting room, Ms. Turpin does nothing to stop it. When the lady then comments about the good weather, Mrs. Turpin uses this as an excuse to complain that "it's good weather for cotton if you can get the niggers to pick it" (O'Connor). A polite person would probably agree that the weather is nice and move on; but Mrs. Turpin, not very classy, ​​always finds something to complain about. Most of what she has to say is either a complaint or a report to herself. When she first sits down, she complains about being overweight, to which the pleasant