The Westing Game Character Analysis

There was a game. The Westing Game. To find an heir. To win it all. Sixteen players. Eight teams. One winner. Who became the heir of Sam Westing. Sam Westing died, or supposedly did, and his sixteen heirs were trying to figure out who killed him, or if he was killed at all, which we found out, later in the novel was true. All of the teams had different clues, and they tried to figure out what those clues meant. In the mystery novel, The Westing Game, written by Ellen Raskin, the elements that were mysterious were: the main conflict, setting, characterization, and the technique the author gave clues to the reader. As the reader follows the novel and reads deeper into the book, they find that the conflict is person vs. person, or the game itself, with the heirs trying to win the game. In the beginning, the heirs of Sam Westing started playing the Westing Game, and all the players, or heirs, got paired up with their partners that they would have for the rest of the game (38). With Turtle as the protagonist, she has the same predicament as all

Sunset Towers, the place where everything happened, set in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on Lake Michigan (1). At first, the story is set in July, the Fourth of July to be exact, and then it progresses into late fall, or early winter, because of the snowstorm that confined the tenants of Sunset Towers inside,”the tenants of Sunset Towers awoke from clue-chasing, blood-dripping dreams, bound in twisted sheets and imprisoned by fifteen-foot snowdrifts”. Sunset Towers was very important to the development of the plot. All of the tenants were living with a burglar, a bomber, and really Sam Westing himself, disguised as Sandy McSouthers of course. As you know, the conflict was the game itself, and with all of the players playing the Westing Game and living at Sunset Towers. When you think about it, Sunset Towers was really just a big game board, with the tenants as the