Mattie/Matilda is a very spoiled girl. She has a crush on a boy named Nathaniel Benson, who only really exists to be a love interest. Mattie is very imperfect, and her mother (Lucille) is a perfect woman, and a perfectionist. She got along (somewhat) with the servant girl Polly who died before anyone really got to know her in Chapter 2. Eliza is a woman who works for Mattie and her family in the Cook Coffeehouse. Mattie’s grandpa was the only good character and he dies after thieves break in