The story is moved along by decisions: Boy Willie decides to buy Sutter’s farmland and sell the piano to finance his own farm. She considers her family’s history surrounding the piano and concludes that it cost too much in suffering to give up. She sets conditions upon having Boy Willie and Lymon in her house. She tries to uncover Boy Willie’s motive behind his unexpected visit. Female Main Character Mental Sexīerniece uses female problem solving techniques.

When Sutter’s ghost attacks her brother, Berniece summons her ancestors’ spirits to exorcise it. After he ignores her orders and tries to remove the piano from the house, she threatens to shoot him. When Boy Willie barges into her house unexpectedly, she tells him to leave. When Avery proposed, she refused him, acting upon her feelings. Do-er Main Character Approachīerniece’s approach to solving problems is to take action: After her husband died, she moved to Pittsburgh with her daughter, and got a job to support them both. She must also quit using the piano as an excuse for her fear and bitterness, and take steps to bury the past and get on with her life. Stop Main Character Growthīerniece has to stop blaming her brother for her husband’s death. However, when Boy Willie is attacked by Sutter’s evil ghost, she uses the piano to release those spirits to save her brother. 8 of the 12 essential questions Change Main Character Resolveīerniece refuses to play the piano because she’s afraid to wake the spirits of her ancestors.

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