Sweetie Pie Character Analysis

This exceptional first novel joins a genre of stories without villains, that hold the reader instead through the charm of the characters, the delight of the events, and the lyricism of the writing. BECAUSE OF WINN-DIXIE is a warmhearted, lovely combination of hilarity (in one scene Winn-Dixie captures an unhurt mouse in the church and delivers it to the preacher during his sermon), poignancy (a candy that tastes of sadness created by a young man who lost everything in the Civil War), and the kind of characters you find only in Southern novels (a child named Sweetie Pie, an old woman who ties bottles to a tree to hold the ghosts of her past transgressions). Opal, who narrates, ties it all together. Her voice is one of the more distinctive in