The Westing Game

Grace Windsor Wexler is the wife of Jake Wexler and the mother of Turtle and Angela. She is unemployed but often casts herself as an interior designer. She is careful to maintain appearances and, upon first entering her new prospective apartment in Sunset Towers, thinks to herself: “Just wait until those so-called friends of hers with their classy houses see this place” (3). She causes a chasm in her relationship with her daughter Turtle by constantly neglecting her to dote on the older and more beautiful Angela.

Grace’s pairing with Mr. Hoo at first introduces a range of problems, not limited to her casual racism and active efforts to make her husband jealous. Soon enough, hanging around the restaurant exposes her to real work, and she acts as hostess at the restaurant before becoming more involved in the business’s operations. She is quite an active participant throughout the Westing game, collaborating with new kinds of people she might have ignored at the beginning of the book. She eventually takes over the restaurant and grows the business into a whole chain. As a more compassionate person, she even oversees the interior renovation of Amber and Crow’s soup kitchen.