Shauna Reed Wetherington P.2 AP Literature 12/07/2016 Rachel Price: The Poisonwood Bible The best way to answer the question "Who is Rachel Price, and what is she like"? Is to simply say that She is a White Christian girl living in the Congo. She loves herself, her hair, and herself. Not necessarily in that order. If the girl wasn't funny in a matter of unintentionally making fun of herself, she would be intolerable to even read about. Throughout the book, like all of the characters she changes. The only difference is when she changes for the worse due to her inability to adapt, and her vain and naive fixed mindset. Rachel lives in her own world where she thinks she runs the show. Well guess what?, she does not. Within the first chapter she says says a lot of ignorant things like "took for granite" (1.3.3) and "give up the goat" (1.3.5). Leah says she's "famous for making things up out of thin air and stating them in a high, knowing tone" (1.9.6). This is one thing that very much reflects her dad. …show more content…
It is clear she meant to say philanthropist but she doesn't prove it until four husbands later when she ends up becoming the racist, gold digging, vain philanthropist she said she would become. Her way of survival is to work her way with these men so that she can fulfill her fixation of having money, comfort, and good looks. Who cares if nobody would ever truly love her other than the family she practically left behind. She was a basic 60's rich white girl. Her characteristics identify her more with a royal family than a girl who will adapt greatly being thrown into the Congo in the middle of Africa. Her way of adapting was to "ascend to heaven directly through a superior mindset"