Annie's charter

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C. Waiting by Stan Barstow

 Explore Annie’s character and analyze her  attitude towards old Thompson?

  Matias Natuche

Annie’s character in this short story is represented as a girl who had spent her whole of her life previous to her marriage as a poor person. Then she married a young working-class man called Bob. Because she wanted to use Bob so she could escape from poverty. Annie married Bob so, so she could have an income. Bob’s father called, Old Thompson, had lost his wife in winter. As a consequence of this, Annie and bob had to live with bob’s father. Annie was pleased at first, but soon she started to feel resentment for Old Thompson. Annie soon realized that she could get rid of Old Thompson. So Bob didn’t have to buy a house of their own. But what really Annie wanted was to get rid of Old Thompson and live a good life with a house of her own. She wanted to take advantage of Bob’s father so she could take every thing, she felt he didn’t need.

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Old Thompson lives in deep shock because of the death of his wife. One winter he sat on his chair in front of the fire and thought sometimes he went and took a walk on the park and sat on the bench with the sun light on his face.

        This was great for Annie because she could clean the house and remove old things and clean them. She loved to clean the house but she only did it when Old Thompson wasn’t in the house. This shows that Annie moved with freedom in the house when Old Thompson wasn’t there. ...

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