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Tamiku [17]
3 years ago
14

The monkey paws.. which best describe Mrs.whites character change in the story

English
1 answer:
Komok [63]3 years ago
7 0

Mrs. White is a strong woman, and the narrator even says she's smarter than her husband. We get the sense that she makes lots of decisions for the family and that her husband is happy with this reversal of traditional gender roles.

As mentioned in Mr. White's section, she might go a bit too far sometimes, to the point of forcing Mr. White to do things he thinks are wrong, like wishing Herbert back to life. Some readers see her as mean and dominating.

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