Throughout the story the grandmother expressed a couple different personalities but all basically tied into one. She is a hateful, manipulative and conniving grandmother. The grandmother tries to control what the children do the whole time throughout the story and she even tells the parents what to do, where they go and how to parent their three children, because she doesn’t think they are doing a good job. The grandmother “would not let the children throw the box and the paper napkins out the window.” This shows that she is like any ordinary grandma in the sense that she doesn’t want her grandchildren to throw trash out the window and onto the side of the road to sit and rot. The grandmother also tries to manipulate her whole family by
