Thirteen years old, fiercely competitive, overlooked by her mother, and the only person to fully solve the Westing puzzle. Her braid is her defiant mark — anyone who pulls it gets kicked. She is the novel's true hero not because she is the most heroic but because she is the most honest: about the game, about herself, about what she wants. Her eventual friendship with Flora Baumbach is the most emotionally complete relationship in the novel.