![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Because the narrator knows that Ursula is bad, Ursula makes the narrator’s life a living hell. Ursula specifically targets the narrator’s father, who begins an affair with her. She does this by first taking control of the narrator’s parents. As the narrator and the Hempstocks attempt to stop Ursula from “helping” people, Ursula becomes far more sinister and seeks to control the world. Ursula gives people money because she believes that money can buy happiness-she hopes to make the narrator’s father see that he can fix all his problems by selling the family’s property and allowing developers to build a dozen homes on it. Finally, she turns herself into a blond, beautiful human woman Ursula Monkton, who wears gray and pink clothes and becomes the nanny for the narrator’s family. ![]() On the Hempstocks’ farm, Ursula takes the form of a giant, tent-like piece of rotting canvas she later takes the form of a gray and pink worm that looks infected so she can bore into the narrator’s foot and travel to the mortal world. Hempstock never explains exactly what Ursula is, she refers to creatures like Ursula as “fleas”-that is, creatures who caught rides on the Hempstocks’ farmland when the Hempstocks brought their farm from the “old country” (a supernatural place that they never describe). Ursula is a supernatural creature and the novel’s antagonist. ![]()
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