In hopes of once again being with John, she puts Elizabeth down, exclaiming “She is blackening my name in the village! She is telling lies about me! She is a cold, sniveling woman and you bend to her!” (Miller 24). If going for him again isn’t enough, she then targets his sweet wife. Even though John does not want to be in a relationship with Abby anymore, she is persistent and selfish, so she ignores his request and tries again for his love. John I am waitin’ for you every night” (Miller 23). Although he apologized to his wife profusely, and ended the rendezvous with Abby, she relentlessly persisted on him and tauntingly mentioned to him “Give me a word, John. A man by the name of John Proctor, whom she previously had an affair with. Interestingly enough, her main focus is to be with a married man.

Abby is so caught up in her own story that she will do anything to keep herself safe. Her intention of speaking this to the girls is to implement fear and terror on them. She says “Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you” (Miller 20).

When a little girl speaks out, and states what she believed happened while they were in the woods, she slaps the girl and as the rest of the girls, crowd around the bed it is obvious Abby is not afraid to induce the same abuse on them.

In order to be with the man she loves, she attacks all innocent people that stand in her way. Abby is truly a self absorbed and self-centered person.

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