Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut
...n jail. Eloise feels like an outsider in her own family. She makes a comment about her daughter looking more like her husband and his mother. She says that when the three of them are together they look like triplets. Ramona, Eloisa’s daughter, appears to be the only person who is free to be who she wants to be. Ramona has a childlike, spontaneous imaginative power and she is on the verge of these qualities being taken from her by her mother who is referred to as "Uncle Wiggly (Bloom, 83). Uncle Wiggly represents a person that is standing in the way of Ramona being her true self. In essence, Eloise envies her daughter Ramona. Ramona is the one who does as she pleases, such as scratching herself and picking her nose at any time. Ramona is the stronger of the two, mentally. Eloise resents Ramona’s imaginary friend Jimmy Jimmerono. One critic explains, "But Jimmy stands in the same relation to Ramona ...