“She was so beautiful”(113). In the short story “Long Long After School” the character of Miss Tretheway is well developed, she is a kind and respectable woman. She was important in helping Wes through school and life. I think Miss Tretheway knew what Wes was going through, and she seemed to understand his pain and how to make him feel better. Miss Tretheway was a lot like Wes when she was a little girl. Miss …showed first 75 words of 640 total…

…showed last 75 words of 640 total…saddened by similar relations a will tell him/her Page 3 to read this story, and I will try my best to be like Miss Tretheway. At the end of the story when Wes lies the corsage down on her grave, it clicked in my mind, she never once was given flowers from a boy or went to dances, and Wes was the only man in Miss Tretheway's life that saw the true beauty in her.