Write a character sketch on Miss Mebbin.
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Miss Mebbin was a very selfish, mean, and unethical lady. She was a real Mammon worshiper. It appears as if money was the sole purpose of her existence. She always adopted a protective elder-sister attitude towards money. In her presence, she would not allow any money be wasted in tips to waiters. She showed mean professional ethics, when she blackmailed Mrs Packletide. No doubt she succeeded in extorting 680 pounds, but she must have earned a bad reputation among her clients.
Louisa Mebbin was a very shrewd and cunning character who knew how to grab a chance to gain wealth as and when opportunity knocked at her door.
She can be called an opportunist.
Louisa Mebbin here uses a tone of blackmail of revealing Mrs.
Packletide 's secret of killing a tiger, just to extract some wealth from Mrs. Packletide.
Mebbin persuade her to buy her a weekend cottage so that she keeps mum about the entire episode of whether Mrs.
Packletide killed the tiger or did it die of a heart attack.
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