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Abysmal Revelation Through Character


             The author characterizes Mrs. Turpin as overwhelming and not someone to be ignored. Not only by her conversations and thoughts, but the way the waiting room almost shrinks when she enters. " Mrs. Turpin, who was very large, made it look smaller by her presence. She stood looming at the head of the magazine table the room was inadequate and ridiculous" (340). The narrator helps the reader know that she sees herself superior to most other people and gets truly confused when she tries to classify people who might actually be classed above her. "Above she and Claud were people with a lot of money and much bigger houses and much more land. But here the complexity of it would begin to bear in on her, for some of the people with a lot of money were common and ought to be below she and Claud and some of the people who had good blood had lost their money and had to rent and then there were colored people who owned their homes and land as well" (342). Mrs. Turpin's conversations and body language also show that she believes what a person wears, owns and looks like is directly related to who they are. "The look that Mrs. Turpin and the pleasant lady exchanged indicated they both understood that you had to have certain things before you could know certain things" (344). Additionally, Mrs. Turpin claims to be willing to help anyone in need, yet she contradicts herself when the time comes. "Help them you must, but help them you couldn't" (346). After Mrs. Turpin is demoralized by Mary Grace, she begins to change. She was suddenly not as figuratively large as she thought. "She saw everything large instead of small", exactly the opposite of what she saw when she came in (347). Although she refused to see that Mary Grace was in the doctor's office because she was sick, even after she left in the ambulance, Mrs. Turpin wants to know why Mary Grace was so distraught by her presence. .
             Mary Grace is a static character whose sole purpose is to provide conflict and make Mrs.


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