The Westing Game Character Analysis

One Murderer. One Game. Sixteen heirs. All these things are involved in the Westing Game by Ellen Raskin. When Sam Westing dies, his will is very different than you might normally hear, to get the inheritance, 16 heirs compete to figure out who killed Sam Westing, the heirs all get paired and get one set of clues each. They all have to figure it out by a deadline or else none of them will get the inheritance. When reading the Westing Game it kept me on the edge of my seat the whole time. The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin used: characterization, setting, main conflict, and the author's ways of giving clues. While the mystery folded out, the main conflict was Person vs. Person; the Protagonists were the heirs because they were trying to win the Westing Game. Which leaves the antagonist as Sam Westing because he wrote the will to be like a Game and made some of the heirs turn on each other. The conflict started out when Turtle goes into the Westing House and finds the dead body of Sam Westing. When Turtle comes out of the Westing House, …show more content…
All of these characters were involved in the Westing Game and had a big part in it, sometimes it was hard to follow all of the characters. When Angela talks to Chris about his clues, many readers think that Chris and Angela were partners, but they weren’t (48-50). I felt like some of the partnerships weren’t mentioned very much, like: Madame Sun Lin Hoo and Jake Wexler, Alexander Mcsouthers and J.J Ford, and Berthe Erica Crow. The reader was left wondering where these partnerships were, and when they were mentioned, When Judge Ford held the party why he did, because he never consulted with his partner about it and the note said, “I am having an informal party this evening from eight o'clock on. You are all invited. Please come. J.J Ford” (63,66-74). Evan at the party it was super confusing to keep all the people