The Westing Game: The Most Impactful Character Of Otis Amber

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Have you ever met a delivery boy? No, the real question is have you ever meet someone who is a private investigator for a deceased millionaire? In the novel, The Westing Game, Otis Amber is the most impactful character in the entire novel. Otis is a strange man with a secret of being a private investigator and his loyalty to Crow. In this novel, Otis Amber adds laughter, but also adds suspicion to this mystery. Without him, this novel would be less of a mystery.
Otis Amber goes around bringing amusement and comedy into The Westing Game. A sixty year old delivery boy, who was more of a man, comes around yelling “BOOM” which makes him a bit more suspicious and weirder than the others. Asit states on page 6, “The small, wiry man pointing to the

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