Westing Game Angela Wexler Quotes

“...Is that how she regarded that young woman, a thing?... Had anyone asked her about her ideas, her hopes, her plans?”(128). Angela Wexler, engaged to Dr. D. Denton Deere at 19 and one of the 16 heirs in Ellen Raskin’s “The Westing Game” experiences the most significant change as a result of playing The Westing Game because she becomes aware of her dependance, becomes self-sufficient, and makes a name for herself.

All her life Angela’s mother has been controlling of her decisions. As a result, Angela’s confidence in herself and in her decisions is in tatters. When signing the Westing will, Angela puts “none”(35) next to her name. This demonstrates Angela’s dependency on others to decide who she is. It also shows how little confidence Angela

This makes Angela resent how her beauty makes everyone believe she’s destine to be nothing more than a mother and a wife, hence bombing herself “From an angry gash on her face and trickled down her beautiful face.”(96). This reveals how Angela is willing to do anything to get people to see past her beauty. It also highlights how determine and angry she is, lashing out in violence against others and herself. Later in the book Angela “had returned the engagement ring to Denton''(176). This incites how Angela was finally able to make her own decisions and do what she wants.It also shows how she matures and stands on her own merit, not being afraid of other’s reactions. Furthermore, Angela was able to make a name for

At first, Sydelle Pulaski is an attention seeker, mistake, and invisible to almost all the tenants. However, she later finds friends in the other heirs, no longer feeling she needs to go to lengths to be seen. Likewise, Turtle is also a worthy candidate. At the start of the novel, she is feisty and the family black sheep. Later however she learns to be clever and gains her family’s acceptance, becoming the winner of The Westing Game. However, these claims are all invalid because Angela’s transformation was not only extensive, but extreme in measures both physically and emotionally. Physically because she consciously inflicts harm upon herself. Emotionally because she went from a puppet figure controlled by her mother to a self-asserted, independent woman. This illustrates that the physical and emotional pain she went through overshadows any of what other characters went