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The Sweetness At The Bottom Of The Pie Analysis
In The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, Alan Bradley personifies the estate, Buckshaw, to create a new character that illustrates the significant depression that the family and town is feeling after Harriet’s death.

To begin with, Bradley describes the house in a negative connotation with, “It’s early-Victorian wall paper (mustard yellow, with a splattering of things that looked like blood red clots of string) made it seem larger: a cold, boundless, drafty waste.” (Bradley 17) Bradley describes the interior of the estate in a negative connotation since the house isn’t as lively as it used to be. The estate is large and drafty and that is really taking a toll on the well-being of the family. The father has been suffering with an undiagnosed
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