Character Paper AP English
            
             In the book Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, the character Jenny, the second
             child of the Tull family has married three times. As a child she was thought to be the
             "luxury", the child that was "fun to dress" to her mother. As an adult she is a pediatrician who is conveyed in the story to be lively, witty, animated, outspoken, and withdrawn from the people who are closest to her. She is described to have "coarse dark hair that she was always hacking at, much to her mother's disapproval" and she was "studious looking", with bones that were so sharp "they seemed like they could puncture her skin".
             Jenny has a strong asset which is to show the family how to survive, "We make our luck right? We have to overcome and learn from our setbacks." Jenny always seems to recognize the need for cheer within the family and she tries to be exuberant. But like the rest of her family she has suffered from her father's disappearance.
             Jenny's mother emotionally and physically abused Jenny when she was a child. Her mother shouted words such as "serpent", "cockroach" and "hideous little sniveling guttersnipe" which haunted Jenny, altering and defying her character. This abuse affected Jenny by causing her to have low self esteem. Eventually when she had her own child, Becky, Jenny even began to act violently towards her own daughter. "She brought Becky a drink of water in the middle of the night and then suddenly, without the slightest intention, screamed, 'Take it! Take it!' and threw the cup into Becky's face. Becky shivered and caught her breath for hours afterward, even in her sleep, though Jenny held her tightly on her lap." At thi...