![]() ![]() While I think the movie excellently portrays Sophie’s isolation and dreariness, it fails to capture the extent of her fear and she’s never, not once, shown speaking to a hat. Sophie’s mother runs the hat shop and Sophie’s father is simply not present. The movie condenses Sophie’s sisters down to one – Lettie – who works in a bakery. She also develops a rather kooky habit of speaking to the hats she’s building. It gets so bad that she’s afraid to even visit her sister down the street. Resigned to her fate, she works day and night designing and building hats, becoming more and more isolated and fretful. Sophie is left to apprentice in the hat shop. Sophie’s sisters are sent out to apprentice at a bakery (Lettie) and with a witch (Martha). When Sophie’s father dies unexpectedly, her stepmother realizes that she will not be able to support them all. ![]() The middle sister, Lettie, is a strong-willed girl who likes to get her own way. ![]() All of her parents’ (her father and not-so-wicked stepmother's) hopes are placed on the shoulders of the youngest sister, Martha. Sophie is the eldest of three, which in this universe means that she will be doomed to poor prospects. As the book opens, we are introduced to Sophie and her family. ![]()
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