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51VIOLET

VIOLET

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iolet Gray is the second girl to move into Charlie

Brown’s neighborhood. She and Patty hit it off

right away, and the two become best friends almost imme-

diately—much to Charlie Brown’s chagrin, as he is often on

the receiving end of their criticism.

Violet comes from an affluent family and can be a

bit pretentious at times. One of her favorite activities is

organizing parties with Patty and deciding which kids

should be excluded from the festivities. All the same,

she’s happy to join her friends in all their activities,

whether playing house, making mudpies, or playing

leftfield on Charlie Brown’s baseball team.

As with her friend Patty, Violet’s role declined over

time. As new characters were introduced, she was

relegated to the background or made to deliver the

setup for other character’s punchlines. “Some characters

just don’t seem to have enough personality to carry

out ideas,” Charles Schulz observed of Violet and his

other early cast members. “They’re just almost born

straight men.”

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02/07/1951