Antagonist

Character Role Analysis

America

Though she eventually comes to feel pretty darn comfortable in America, for most of the book, America is Shirley's main problem. It's a completely foreign place, filled with strange sights and sounds and brimming with people who speak a language that Shirley most definitely does not. It's a heckofa barrier to her happiness, and she meets a whole lot of loneliness and sadness as she tries to figure life in the U.S. out, but luckily for our main girl, she emerges victorious in the end. Take that, America.