Cold Sassy Tree
Cold Sassy Tree A.] Characters:
1) Will Tweedy - The novel’s narrator and protagonist. Will is a fourteen-year-old boy growing up Cold Sassy, Georgia at the very beginning of the twentieth century. Will is a free spirit and often likes to defy the rules that are set in his life. He is respectful but he does not like his Aunt Loma (he has a change of heart near the end though). 2) Enoch Rucker Blakeslee - Will’s grandfather who is 59 years old. He loves whiskey and tobacco. Stingy….didn’t pay for a phone in his house, electricity, or a bathroom. He is well-respected and stubborn. Had a long beard that was gray and usually stained from tobacco juice. Blue eyed; has all his teeth; lean, strong, and straight; Democrat; Baptist; devout Confederate veteran; only has one hand (right); good shooter with a gun. Rucker is a humorous man who owns the general store in Cold Sassy. Rucker is passionately Southern, but he has no use for the gossip and hypocrisy of Cold Sassy’s small-town ways, and he acts according to his own code of decent conduct, not the town’s. 3) Miss Love Simpson – Rucker’s second wife (married on July 5, 1906) who is 34 years old and a Yankee. She is a milliner (she designs hats for women and makes them); fashionable and is considered the prettiest woman in Cold Sassy; very proper. Miss Love is a pretty, affectionate, and strong-willed woman. Miss Love has succeeded despite a troubled childhood. She is charming and has a sense of humor. She lives her life cheerfully and bravely, ignoring or defying the expectations of the close-minded and suspicious inhabitants of Cold Sassy. 4) Mattie Lou Blakeslee - Will’s grandmother and Rucker’s first wife. Mattie Lou dies three weeks before the novel begins at the age of 56. Mattie Lou was an excellent gardener and a devoted caretaker for the sick. The people of Cold Sassy speak reverently of her, and Rucker never forgets her companionship and
1) Will Tweedy - The novel’s narrator and protagonist. Will is a fourteen-year-old boy growing up Cold Sassy, Georgia at the very beginning of the twentieth century. Will is a free spirit and often likes to defy the rules that are set in his life. He is respectful but he does not like his Aunt Loma (he has a change of heart near the end though). 2) Enoch Rucker Blakeslee - Will’s grandfather who is 59 years old. He loves whiskey and tobacco. Stingy….didn’t pay for a phone in his house, electricity, or a bathroom. He is well-respected and stubborn. Had a long beard that was gray and usually stained from tobacco juice. Blue eyed; has all his teeth; lean, strong, and straight; Democrat; Baptist; devout Confederate veteran; only has one hand (right); good shooter with a gun. Rucker is a humorous man who owns the general store in Cold Sassy. Rucker is passionately Southern, but he has no use for the gossip and hypocrisy of Cold Sassy’s small-town ways, and he acts according to his own code of decent conduct, not the town’s. 3) Miss Love Simpson – Rucker’s second wife (married on July 5, 1906) who is 34 years old and a Yankee. She is a milliner (she designs hats for women and makes them); fashionable and is considered the prettiest woman in Cold Sassy; very proper. Miss Love is a pretty, affectionate, and strong-willed woman. Miss Love has succeeded despite a troubled childhood. She is charming and has a sense of humor. She lives her life cheerfully and bravely, ignoring or defying the expectations of the close-minded and suspicious inhabitants of Cold Sassy. 4) Mattie Lou Blakeslee - Will’s grandmother and Rucker’s first wife. Mattie Lou dies three weeks before the novel begins at the age of 56. Mattie Lou was an excellent gardener and a devoted caretaker for the sick. The people of Cold Sassy speak reverently of her, and Rucker never forgets her companionship and