Vera The Story

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Vera is a very manipulative and deceitful woman in this story. We know this because in the middle of the story vera says “Then you know practically nothing about my aunt?” (7) Which in this particular quote she is trying to figure out what she could lie to him about and get away with.Vera appears to be a nice young girl who is playing hostess and has no ulterior motive in telling Framton Nuttel her story. She is a very deceitful because she lies to Mr. Nuttle and say that the three men in the story had died. She does not present it as a ghost story. She only claims that her aunt believes the three men are still alive and will return through the open window, even though they have been dead for three years.Vera say “poor aunt always thinks they

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