Character (Had it as a comment before)

The main character in falling leaves is Adeline Yen Mah, who at this point in the book has not been in enough. I've read up to chapter 5, the beginning of it, and found out that her character is not shown that much, the first chapters are her families past. Her grandaunt was a sucessful bank owner who fought for women, she had a grandpa who was a sucessful import buisness man, and her father was also sucessful in owning his own company. When Adeline was born and her mother died 2 weeks later, she mentions not ever remembering her mom, she didn't even have a picture. This may make her feel as though she killed her mom, but it is too early to know because she is barely in the story. She having a extremely sucessful family easily puts her in a place of high society. This also allows her to go to school later on. She also has 4 older siblings and 2 younger half siblings, which I would think, would make her feel a bit left out being near the middle child. That is just a guess though. She also has a stepmom who the book described almost as a golddigger. At the very beginning of the book though, in the present time in which her father died, she and her siblings were very obedient to their stepmom which you could probably create the guess that Adeline was a very quiet and obedient child. But again that is a guess, you will here more as the story progresses