Alias Grace Character Development

Ms. Grace Marks, the main protagonist of the entitled novel, Alias Grace, is a very unique character that just keeps getting slowly built upon throughout the novel. The farther you get into the novel the more you seem to know about Ms. Grace. Many of which come from many different people. These people include Susanna Moodie, Emily Brontë and a few others. Most of her character development come from people who believe that she had committed the murder of Thomas Kinnear and his house keeper Nancy Montgomery. The first way the author gives some character development is a very interesting one. It starts with a people in after introducing the characters. This poem describes the killings of Thomas Kinnear and Nancy Montgomery. With this giving the backstory of the current situation with the murder case it gives us a good mental picture of Grace Marks. This poem gives us the basic
Grace people such as Susanna Moodie and Emily Brontë who just give their own thoughts about her slowly developing the character more in the story. They give slightly different development as they give more visualizing development rather than to Ms. Grace Marks story and who she is. They both seem to give a rather dull or even in pain look to her as Susanna Moodie regards her with," There is an air of hopeless melancholy in her face which is very painful to contemplate"(Atwood 20). This just takes any sort of good feeling about Grace Marks away and shows how people truly feel about her as a character in this story. Not just in Susanna Moodie's opinion of her having pain, Emily Brontë also states some sort of pain while giving her opinion by saying," Pain could not trace a line, or grief a shadow there"(Atwood 20). With both women stating this further develops the character to have some sort of pain or sorrow which makes sense in the situation that she has been put