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| Name: | Betsey Trotwood |
| Description: | She is David's great-aunt and has an unfavorable view of men and boys. |
Betsey Trotwood of the book David Copperfield is David's great-aunt and has an unfavorable view of men and boys. She appears in the first chapter where she demonstrates her uncommon personality and her dislike of boys when she storms out of the house after hearing that David's mother is having a son.
She plays a bigger role in David Copperfield's life by taking him in after he has run away from where his stepfather Edward Murdstone had stationed him to work. She provides him with school and opportunities for work, thus showing her complex character.
