Suppose Meringue Pie Character Analysis

“Winter”
Claudia and Frieda’s father, Mr. MacTeer, eyes “become a cliff of snow threatening to avalanche,” and “his eyebrows bend like black limbs of leafless trees”(Morrison 61) indicating he is tired. His skins takes on the pale, cheerless yellow of winter sun; for a jaw he has the edges of a snowbound field dotted with stubble; his high forehead is the frozen sweep of Erie, hiding currents gelid thoughts that eddy in darkness. Wolf killer turned hawk fighter he worked night and day to keep one from the door and the other from under the windowsills.” (61) You can infer that Mr. Macteer is a no-nonsense, hard-working man who shows his love for his family more through his deeds than through his words. Mr. Macteer works night and day to keep his family safe and financially fit.
Maureen Peal is the new girl in school. “A high-yellow dream child with long brown hair braided into two lynch ropes that hung down her back. She was rich. There was a hint of spring in her sloe green eyes, something summery in her complexion…”(62) Maureen enchanted the entire school because she
You want to run into her, Claudia.”(76) So they go to Miss Bertha’s. When the girls return home from Miss Bertha’s, instead of seeing their mother they see Mr. Henry and two women. Mr. Henry is sucking the finger of one of the women. The girls quickly identify these women as China, and the Maginot Line two whores, whom Mama and Big Mama hated. “Back already?”(78) This is what Mr. Henry say’s as the girls return home. Frieda ask Mr. Henry who were the two women in the house? Mr. Henry replies by saying they are member of his bible class, and they came over to read with him today. “Bed” not mention it to your mother. She don’t take to so much Bible study and don’t like me having visitors’ even if they good Christians.”(79) The girls agree so they don’t have to hear their mother’s