The Hundred Dresses

Fiction | Novella | Middle Grade | Published in 1944

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Chapters 3-4

Chapters 5-7

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Essay Topics

How do Peggy and Wanda operate as literary foils?

Which details in the opening chapters convey that Wanda’s family is impoverished?

Maddie is characterized as a kind and principled character despite her failure to intervene in Peggy’s bullying of Wanda. How is this characterization achieved?