Answer: Because they are exploiting she and her step-mother.
Explanation:
Gretel is the titular character in the short story, <em>''Gretel''</em> by <em>Garrison Keillor</em>. Gretel believes that her drunk of a father is exploiting both she and her stepmother and so dislikes him.
Gretel is also a writer but her brother covets her profits from publishing a book and wants the lion share for himself whilst giving her a meagre amount. The lawyer ensures that this happens by putting Gretel under a spell that made her sign a contract that gave her brother his wish. This makes her hate both her brother and the lawyer.
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The sand is softly golden with just the right comforting warmth. To rest on the beach feels like a cosy hug, one only matched by the sunshine filled sky. Tom stretches out both arms and legs to look like a boy-starfish, his grin growing slowly into a broad smile. The only marker of time today is the sun above, the moments savoured by the waves that wash the sands in white lace.
With browning legs curled under, dusted with sand like flour on bread, I sit close to the lapping waves. They feel warm and cool, like tea that's been forgotten and returned to. My fingers wiggle in the water, in these lips of the ocean as she sings. In this place I will remain until the tide is lower, scooping the sand that runs like cold lava through my star-fish fingers and onto the dry beach. With each handful I twist my body as if dancing in a chair, gazing at the falling sand. Below it rises a drip-castle, a sandcastle that looks for all the world like a melted candle. By sunset there will be a long skinny line of them following the ocean as she chases the moon.
Maria Beadnell. they met in 1830
