Grandparents

While creating Reader's Guides for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory I was thinking about the grandparents, especially the grandmothers, in the story.  They listen to the newspaper articles about Violet, Mike, Augustus and Veruca and are consistently disgusted with the ways that these children are raised and act.  It made me smile and reminded me of both of my grandmothers when they'd see a child misbehaving in church, or in the supermarket, or even on TV.  Just made me smile.