Foil

Character Role Analysis

The Narrator and Her Older Sisters

We don't know much about the narrator's sisters (even how many there are in total), but we know they're "pretty" and "nice" and good at doing "girl things" (2). This is all mentioned in order to show how un-pretty, un-nice, and bad at doing girl things the narrator (purportedly) is. She's so bad that her sisters call her "bull hands"—which, of course, actually isn't very nice at all.