Jenny Hill Character Analysis

Edward’s love interest, Jenny Hill is a beautiful 20-year-old-woman with blue eyes and dark braided hair who lives in a town called Specter. Edward meets and falls in love with her when he is around 40, despite already being married to Sandra. Edward, who has bought the entire town of Specter on a sort of mid-life-crisis-whim, conducts a long-term affair with Jenny. He installs her in a house in the middle of town and visits her a few days a month. Jenny is so in love with Edward that she grows dissatisfied with his lengthy absences, and her life becomes empty and bitter. She sits by the window, perpetually waiting for Edward to return. Jenny’s life grows stagnant and a swamp begins to grow around her home, trapping her there and rendering her inaccessible to everyone around her—including Edward. Eventually, all that people can see through the swamp are two glowing yellow eyes at the window. Jenny’s bleak outcome represents the fate that awaits people who spend their lives waiting instead of taking action to change their circumstances, and they become, therefore, stuck in their lives.