. Again, Aunt Polly is a woman essentially trapped in the role she plays in her relationship with the male hero, but because of her intermittent flashes of humor and awareness, Aunt Polly is a far more fully developed woman than is the one-dimensional evil Queen in "Snow White."
Similarly, Becky is a female defined largely by her relationship with and responses to the hero of the story, but she does show spunk and some self-determination within the confines of that definition. For the most part, Becky lives, at least within the context of the novel, for Tom's love. She is happy when she is receiving that love, and she is
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