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Character sketch of Maggie, , Alice Margaret Clifford is one of the vibrant, characters in the story'The Price of flowers' written, by a Bengali novelist Prabhat Kumar, Mukhopadhyay . Maggie is a little girl who falls, upon the thorns of life in her early age., , She is thirteen or fourteen years old. Her eyes are, wide and large. Hardness of her life can be found, in her eyes and clothing. They had a sad, expression. She has a widowed mother and a, brother who was working as a soldier in British, India. Maggie is working as a typist in a civil, service store. She works hard to keep the pot, boiling. Her mother also helps her to make the ends, meet. This is not a single story. But it embraces the, love, care, affection, sacrifice, optimism, boldness, and so on. One day Maggie came across an Indian, named Gupta.she asked him a lot about India. She, was very eager to know about her brother. She, showed Gupta a crystal ring sent by Frank on her

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birthday as a token of love. When her mother was, confined to bed, the crystal ring helped her to get, her back to life. When she knew Frank departed, forever, she kept her balance at all time.she went to, meet Gupta and gave a shilling to buy some flowers, .And she asked him to place it on the tomb. That, shilling is not just an amount, but it is the true love, of Maggie for her brother. I am sure that this story, and little Maggie do not fade from our memory., The writer has succeeded to arouse deep emotions, in our mind through Maggie.