He looked like a low-grade bookmaker dressed up for his daughter's wedding, and he was clearly very pleased with himself this evening. Wormwood's outfit is blinding. Blindingly bad. It's almost cartoonlike in its color scheme "a yellow tie" and a suit that's "orange-and-green check[s]". The narrator's comparison of him to "a low-grade bookmaker dressed up for his daughter's wedding" says it all: Mr.
Wormwood is tacky and totally self-absorbed. Despite the fact that others see a pretty sleazy guy when they look at him, Mr. Wormwood thinks he looks downright sharp. A bookmaker, in this passage, refers to a bookie, or a gambling man. It's kind of a funny word choice considering how much Mr.
Wormwood likes to read—that is, hardly at all. Though he may sell cars rather than take bets, Mr. Wormwood still has the same sleazy mindset. Let's take a deeper look into why you shouldn't trust this guy as far as you could throw him. Just like you don't want the Trunchbull for a headmistress, you definitely don't want Mr. Wormwood as your car salesman. The bottom line is that Mr. Wormwood is "[a] cheat and a liar" 5.
As a secondhand car salesman, he only sells used cars, which gives him the opportunity to mess with each one, and lie about his products. For example, his special selling tactic is usually to say that a car's previous owner, a little old lady, hardly ever drove it.
He puts sawdust in the car engines, and uses a drill to make the speedometers run backwards. He'll knock fifty cents off a price to make the car sound cheaper. Real classy, dude. To top it all off, he's a hypocrite.
She plays a much less active role in terrorizing her daughter. She deserves some punishment, though. She doesn't step up and defend Matilda when Mr. Wormwood bothers her, and she doesn't help her daughter develop her awesome mind. That's what makes Mrs. Wormwood a villain—she just can't bring herself to care about her own daughter.
Wormwood also values outsides more than insides. Naturally, like her vain husband, she thinks her own appearance is the ideal one:.
Miss Honey looked at the plain plump person with the smug suet-pudding face who was sitting across the room. Me, of course. I'm sitting pretty in a nice house with a successful businessman and you're left slaving away teaching a lot of nasty little children the ABC.
Suet-pudding, for those who are curious, is a British delicacy made with beef fat. It's not really a dessert, and it's definitely not something you want associated with your face. This statement, then, shows us that Mrs. Wormwood has a warped worldview. She's either too lazy or too stupid to think straight. She thinks she's hit the jackpot by marrying Mr. Wormwood, "a successful businessman," and been left "sitting pretty in a nice house. Wormwood's own word, and if all you care about are soap operas and Bingo games.
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Made by Opencultu. Basket 0. About Stories Characters Timeline Archive. Mr Wormwood. Meet Mr Wormwood "Mr Wormwood was a small ratty-looking man whose front teeth stuck out underneath a thin ratty moustache. Listen now! From 'Arithmetic'.
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