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THE HUNDRED DRESSES SUMMARY-I

The story is about a quiet and shy girl named Wanda Petronski, a Polish
immigrant, who had come to America with her family. She attended school with
American children who found her name to be strange and probably, the weirdest
in the classroom. This is because they all had easier names. She was poor and
was always seen wearing a faded blue dress. Her classmates teased her because

she claimed to have a hundred dresses “all lined up” in her closet albeit, always
being seen wearing one. The ones who mainly teased her were the two best
friends, Peggy and Maddie. Peggy was the most famous girl in school while
anyone barely knew Wanda.

Peggy and Maddie used to wait for Wanda before school even if it meant
getting late. Maddie, a poor girl herself did not like when Peggy made fun of
Wanda. She feared that she could be next. She wanted Peggy to stop making fun
of Wanda, but could not summon courage to face her as she feared she’d lose
her best friend. However, Peggy’s intention was never to hurt Wanda but she

was curious as to why Wanda had to lie that she had a hundred dresses in her
closet.

Truth about the same hundred dresses unveiled on the result day of the drawing
competition. The room was lined with one hundred drawings portraying
different dresses, each so beautiful. That day, she truly had “a hundred dresses

all lined up”, but in the classroom. At that moment, Peggy and Maddie, who
were awestruck realised the theory of a hundred dresses and felt guilty about
having treated her badly