Question

character sketch of all characters in a shady plot

Answer 1

• John Hallock: He is an accountant in lumber company. He also wrote stories on supernatural theme for Jeniken’s magazine. However, he has no idea on this theme but eventually he ends up writing excellent stories. Later, he comes to know that ghosts are helping him in writing that stories. He is a hen-pecked husband who is always afraid of his wife, Lavinia.

• Lavinia: She is wife of John Hallock. She is a spendthrift as she has an alarming tendency to spend money on the latest fashions and trends. She is the one who purchases an Ouija Board and organized the Ouija party. She may come across as a vacuous wife, but finally displays genuine love and affection for her husband.

• Jenikens – He is the owner of magazine. He believed that John has excellent capability of writing ghost stories so he always calls him whenever he needs one.

• Helen – She is a ghost who is helping writers in writing ghost stories. In the past life, she is a writer who suffered miserable so, she founded ‘Writers’ Inspiration Bureau’ which give extended help to those writers who have no ideas. She is angry because the ghosts have to be at the beck and call of the Ouija board fanatics to answer their questions. This does not leave them with any time for their amusement or haunting others. So, she orders John to stop these things in his house.