People can get to know a lot about a character by their personality traits. In “A Christmas Memory” by Truman Capote he shows this to us. Buddy’s Friends first characteristic is that she is proud. Buddy and she just got done cutting down a tree. They put a lot of hard work into it and they thought is was perfect. When carrying it home, they were offered money for it by some random people. “Ordinarily my friend is afraid of saying no; but on this occasion she promptly shakes her head. ‘We wouldn’t take a dollar for it’” (63) The next characteristic is that she is superstitious. They were counting how much money they had for buying supplies. Buddy counted $13 exactly. Buddy’s friend is very superstitious about 13’s and she was thinking
