The Doll People

Annabelle, the protagonist of the story, is a china doll living in the dollhouse in Kate Palmer’s bedroom. Although she considers herself to be eight years old because “Kate decided [she is] eight” (66), in reality, she is more than 100 years old, having been created in 1898 by an English dollmaker. She wears an old-fashioned long dress with lace-capped sleeves and has blond hair with a green streak of paint in it from an incident many years ago when Grandma Katherine, then a little girl, tried to change her hair color. Annabelle loves her family and enjoys playing with her little brother and engaging in sing-alongs with everyone. Although, like the rest of her family, Annabelle is formally polite and conventional by modern standards, Annabelle is also different from the rest of the Doll family in key ways for her role as protagonist.

Annabelle has a spirit of adventure and a need for companionship that makes her restless and bored with her life before she meets Tiffany and sets out to find Auntie Sarah. Annabelle is brave, curious, and clever, and she can be a little rebellious. Unlike the other dolls around her, she does not fully believe in Permanent

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