Grandpa



My Character is Abraham Simpsons. He is an 83 years old, grizzled man. His skin is yellow, as all the other persons in Springfield. The hair is yellow and brown. Abraham has an old wrinkled face with big eyes and a small nose. He wears minor, round glasses, which is resting on his nose. He has a denture, like we all have seen before, and has a rusty voice. His favorite clothes are a blue sweater and a dark blue pant. And his slippers are with him everywhere. He lives at the “Springfield Retirement Castle” with other demented old people. Abraham Simpson lives alone after many destroyed relationships. He has three children, with three different wives, and one of them is Homer Simpson. Bart, Lisa and Maggie are his grandchildren. His ex-wife is Mona Simpson, Selma Bouvier and Edwina. In his elder days he had had a relationship with some ladies at the Retirement Castle. Abraham has also had an affair with the world’s eldest lady. Almost all of Abraham’s future is told by himself, so it is hard to actually know what is true or not. Many of his stories sound quite untruthfully. He is very senile and lies and invents. So we have to take the stories with a “grain of salt.” I guess he is a minor character. He is not one of the persons which are central to the work’s plot like Homer, Marge, Bart and Lisa. Homer uses every opportunity to ignore or eject his father. They have a quite exert relation. Inmost Abraham is a very kind person. Once he sold his own house, to help Homer to buy a house for his family. In returns for that Abraham was sent to a retirement castle. Homer did that because of being mistreated of his father in the childhood. Abraham’s time is used to send complaining letters to persons about things he is discontented with. But no one actually listens to him. They are so tired about his complaining about everything. Homer thinks his father is very laborious. He tries all the time to avoid his visits. Abraham is senile and tells old histories over and over again. That’s annoying Homer and all the other persons around him of course. Homer and his father have a quite exert relation. I think that the person is dynamic. He changes from being bad to nice in many of the episodes. For instance in the episode “Million Dollar Abie” he is going to kill bulls but in the end of the story he let them go. I guess he is stereotypical. He reminds me actually about “all” other old persons. His behaviour and his speaking is exactly the same. Abraham’s strength is that he is quite smart. He has many weaknesses, among other things is he senile and he lies about everything. The first time he appeared in the show, was in the episode “Grandpa and the kids”.

Elin Espevik Mehus, 1STB.