Helen Crane Character Analysis in The Possibility of Evil

Helen Crane is married to Don Crane and mother to a baby girl. She talks to Miss Strangeworth outside the grocery store. Miss Strangeworth chastises her for spoiling her daughter and tells her she worries too much about how her child is developing. Later, though, she receives a letter from Miss Strangeworth calling her daughter an “idiot.” Along with her husband, she is likely responsible for the destruction of Miss Strangeworth’s roses.

Helen Crane Quotes in The Possibility of Evil

The The Possibility of Evil quotes below are all either spoken by Helen Crane or refer to Helen Crane. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:

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Carrying her little bag of groceries, Miss Strangeworth came out of the store into the bright sunlight and stopped to smile down on the Crane baby. Don and Helen Crane were really the two most infatuated young parents she had ever known, she thought indulgently, looking at the delicately embroidered baby cap and the lace-edged carriage cover.

“That little girl is going to grow up expecting luxury all her life,” she said to Helen Crane.

Related Characters: Miss Adela Strangeworth (speaker), Helen Crane, The Crane Baby

Page Number and Citation: 3

Explanation and Analysis:

Helen Crane Quotes in The Possibility of Evil

The The Possibility of Evil quotes below are all either spoken by Helen Crane or refer to Helen Crane. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:

).

Carrying her little bag of groceries, Miss Strangeworth came out of the store into the bright sunlight and stopped to smile down on the Crane baby. Don and Helen Crane were really the two most infatuated young parents she had ever known, she thought indulgently, looking at the delicately embroidered baby cap and the lace-edged carriage cover.

“That little girl is going to grow up expecting luxury all her life,” she said to Helen Crane.

Related Characters: Miss Adela Strangeworth (speaker), Helen Crane, The Crane Baby

Page Number and Citation: 3

Explanation and Analysis:

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Helen Crane Character Analysis

Helen Crane Quotes in The Possibility of Evil

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