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Character Role Analysis

Jude and Dianna Sweetwine

Jude and her mother clash all the time, but it turns out they have a lot in common. "It'd be easier with us and I'd worry less," Dianna tells Jude, "if you didn't remind me so much of myself…." (6.14) Even Guillermo tells Jude that she is "so, so much like her" mother. (8.234) This is comforting and helpful to Jude, who's still trying to understand her mom—and herself—years after Dianna's death.