Emma's Character sketch

Emma’s Character Sketch

         Physical Characteristics

 Not quite 5’

 @110 lbs.

 Mousy brown, stringy and thinning

 Small, dark and heavily hooded eyes

 Small heart shaped face with a unhealthy pallor

 A low, soft voice

 Clever

 Exceedingly thorough

 Tends to scuttle along—like a mouse, hoping to remain unseen and unnoticed

 Quick-tempered—with a memory like an elephant—but she’s learned to control herself around others



Emma likes to be in control.  She can be extremely passive-aggressive and manipulating but she is very subtle.  She is very calculating when chooses who she’ll manipulate, and how and when.



She is a small, shriveled up husk of a woman—well past her prime and she knows it.  She maintains the façade of being the sweet, solicitous woman—thoughtful and kind.  She is prim and proper—the picture of a New England school marm.



She attended a boarding school, where she was taught the ‘womanly arts’ of keeping a house.  She has no real interests.  She doesn’t like to read or do needlework.  She has never had any suitors—suitable or otherwise. 



She had enjoyed being ‘the lady of the house’ from the death of her natural mother until her father remarried.  She resented being ‘put aside’—displaced by Abby.  But she maintained a neutral countenance—manipulating Lizzie into being the ‘problem child’.

She has always been fiercely possessive of her father’s affection.  It was only because she loved Lizzie, that she allowed them to initially have a affectionate ‘father-daughter’ relationship.  She has other ways to make Lizzie pay.



She would rather give all she has away and smolder with hate than admit that she too likes—wants nice things. 



She is a tortured soul—living in a hell of her own making.