An Analysis Of The Dust Witch In Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes

In Ray Bradbury's "Something Wicked This Way Comes". the Dust Witch can be described using the tone word malicious. The Dust Witch has a malicious tone, because of her intent to harm Charles Halloway and capture Jim & Will. This is seen when the Dust Witch marks the top of Jim Nightshade's house so that after Mr. Dark has his plan together, he will easily be able to find where Jim and Will live by looking for the mark left by the Dust Witch.(Bradbury 114) This shows that the Dust Witch is malicious by demonstrating her relentless attempt to capture the boys to make them part of Mr. Dark's evil carnival. It also demonstrates she is malicious because she helped Mr. Dark who is against the boys and wants to take them away. This is also seen when