Violet Westing. Violet is the deceased daughter of the Westings, and she looks like Angela and Grace Wexler. She used to go out with George Theodorakis, until her mother started to push her into marriage with a corrupt politician; she then committed suicide. Alice Deere. Alice is Angela and Dr. Deere's daughter, and the beloved niece of Turtle. She plays chess with her aunt at the end of the book.
Grace Windsor Wexler is a high end intrerior designer with hopes of being rich. She has two daughters, Angela who is engaged to D.
Denton Derre, a doctor, and Turtle her "other" child. She is married to Jake Wexler who is a podiatrist. Flora Bambach is a sweet dressmaker. She made a wedding dress for Sam Westing's daughter, Violet Westing , who drowned on the eve of her wedding.
Baumbach's partner is Turtle Wexler, but she calls her by her real name, Alice. Sam Westing is not actually dead, so it turns out that no one actually killed him. Rather, he disguises himself as Sandy McSouthers throughout the game.
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Hoo seems to be someone with a reason to dislike Mr. Having such a beautiful partner in Grace Wexler seems to have boosted her confidence and the fact that she is the keeper of the transcription of the will has made her suddenly the center of attention. The irony is, the Westing Game is making people notice her, not her actual injury. At this point in the novel, Judge J. Ford seems to be going at the Westing Game alone. While her partner Sandy McSouthers seems largely absent, she is taking on an investigative role.
As a character who seems to have history with Sam Westing, she comes up with the theory that he is simply using the Westing Game to frame someone who he himself had a grudge against, furthering the theory that in the Westing Game, nothing is as it seems. The Question and Answer section for The Westing Game is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
Why did Turtle stare at Sydelle? The typing is perfect— well, almost perfect. It seems you left out the last word in section three: The estate is at the crossroads. The heir who wins Why can't the other characters read Sydelles copy of the will? What does turtle want to buy with the money she will earn from being in the westing house? At two dollars a minute, twenty-five minutes would pay for a subscription to The Wall Street Journal.
Turtle feels surprised that the article fails to mention the letter next to his bed or the evidence that she had been in the house. The heirs assemble at the Westing mansion. More heirs arrive: Dr. When Judge J. The final two heirs enter: Crow, the cleaning woman; and Sydelle Pulaski, who uses a crutch and claims to have a disease. Sydelle takes notes in shorthand as Plum reads the eccentric but legal will.
Written by Westing, the document explains that he returned to live among his friends and enemies. The heirs are his nieces and nephews, and one of them took his life. As the group expresses anxiety, Plum continues reading. Praising the opportunities of America, the will states that anyone who plays the Westing game may become rich. Judge Ford protests, but the will instructs her to sit down and read a letter from Plum and then directs everyone to say a silent prayer for Westing.
The heirs gather in the game room, where they are paired into eight teams: Madame Hoo Mr. The teams receive envelopes filled with squares with words written on them. Most try to rearrange the squares to make sense, but Sydelle and Angela listen to the others to try to figure out their clues.
Throughout the scene, Theo has played several moves with an unknown opponent on a chessboard that was previously set up. Back at Sunset Towers, the pairs get to work. Most tenants try to convince Sydelle to share her notes of the will, but she refuses. They decide to buy stocks in these companies plus in Westing Paper Products.
Hoo and Grace look at their clues in Mr. Grace tells Mr. Hoo to ask his son for his clues, but Mr. Theo asks more questions about the night Turtle went into the Westing house. He tells Doug about the chess game in the game room, and they decide to figure out which heir plays chess.
The letter is signed by Dr. Sikes, who was also in the car accident. Judge Ford determines to find the heir before anyone else to ensure justice, not vengeance, wins out. She calls a newspaper to find out everything she can about the heirs. But when Sydelle and Angela get to her apartment, they find the door open and her notebook stolen. The tenants begin leaving notes for one another on the elevator wall. Sydelle requests the return of her notebook, an anonymous person asks that players gather to discuss sharing clues, and Judge Ford invites everyone to a party.
Turtle and Flora return from placing their stock order. Grace tries to convince Turtle to share her clues by treating Turtle with extra kindness, but Turtle refuses to ever share her clues.
Angela and Sydelle plan to attend the party dressed alike to find out if anyone is a twin. Grace tries to get Sydelle to share their notes by saying any money she wins will go to Angela.
Hoo sued Westing over a diaper invention he claims Westing stole. Many heirs watch one another, like Chris, who looks to see who else besides Sydelle limps. Theo talks about chess, and Sydelle keeps bringing up twins. The guests discuss a sentence that Flora remembers from the will about God refining gold. The tenants meet at the coffee shop. Sydelle believes she should get a larger share because the will holds clues, too, and she took notes on the document. Unexpectedly, Mr.
Hoo pulls out her shorthand pad, saying someone left it at his restaurant. Hoo proposes that Sydelle get a larger share, but Judge Ford wants to postpone a decision until all heirs are present.
Instead, they ask one another questions. Suddenly, the meeting comes to a panicked end. Everyone gathered in the coffee shop hears the sound of bangs and screams. Theodorakis rushes out of the kitchen covered in tomato sauce. She and her husband think someone set off a bomb. She recalls the other connections heirs have to Westing: Mr. Hoo through the lawsuit; Sandy, who used to work in the paper factory; and herself. Judge Ford looks in the phone book to find a detective and sees a name that seems too coincidental.
She dials a number and hears the voice she was expecting. The scene opens as the unnamed bomber sets a can on a kitchen shelf in Mr. Grace, meanwhile, has a new job as a hostess, and most of the tenants are coming for dinner. Grace seats Chris and Sydelle together. Jake Wexler joins Turtle, who is listening to a bad stock report on the radio, and Turtle accuses her father of being a bookie. Sydelle asks Chris if he can walk and says being in a wheelchair is the perfect disguise for a criminal, which delights Chris.
Sydelle goes to the kitchen to thank the chef just as Otis enters the restaurant and the bomb goes off. Sydelle is injured, and Jake calls an ambulance, which takes her, accompanied by Angela, to the hospital.
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