Character Analysis: And Then There Were None By Agatha Christie

In the novel, And Then There Were None, written by Agatha Christie, ten people are invited to an island under false pretenses, but slowly, one by one, the group starts dying off. All of the deaths of the group are based upon an old nursery rhyme called Ten Little Indians, which is hung in all the rooms. But when all of them arrive at the house on the island, a record player starts playing, explaining how all of them are guilty of murder. Soon after, Mrs. Roger’s is the first to drop dead, leaving all of them weary and paranoid of one another. Doubts and blame start flying around between each other. After the record played, the reader learns some insight of one of the more important and developed characters, Vera Claythorne. Vera is a former