EDIE

Edie is a very sypathetic character in the story. She is taken advantage of in the story because of her innoncence. When she and Chris got "intimate" in the tent, she didn't even know what that meant. Alice looks down upon Edie and thinks she is just a little girl who is not worldly. Since Edie is only the help around the house, she never really gets out and is able to experience life the way most other girls her age do. When Chris left, she was innocent enough to believe that he was going to write her and eventually come back to marry her. Any other person reading the story would know that that was not going to happen. All of these things contribute to the persona of her character.