Henrietta Evans

**Henrietta Evans** is the main antagonist in the film, *The Good Daughter*. She is the female version of Henry Evans, the main antagonist in the film, *The Good Son*. She is the cousin and archenemy of Marcie Evans, the film’s main protagonist and female version of Mark Evans.

**Biography**

Henrietta is from Rock Harbor, Maine. She lived in Maine with her parents, Wallace and Susan Evans, her little sister Connie Evans, and her little brother Richard Evans before he died. Two years before the movie, Henrietta killed her little brother, Richard, by drowning him in the bathtub. Henrietta also enjoyed killing animals with a homemade crossbow that shoots bolts and dropping human looking dummies onto the highway to cause car accidents. She had a murder shed she used as a secret personal secret serial killer hideout.

Since Marcie’s father must go on a business trip to Tokyo, he leaves his daughter with his uncle Wallace and aunt Susan. Soon, Marcie and her cousin Henrietta, who seems like a good friend and a nice girl at first, meet up. However, Henrietta’s true nature starts to show up after some of her behavior is revealed. Like starting out when he smoked and pressured Marcie into doing it telling him that (“she’s gonna die anyway”) and then expressed interest in death, asking how Marcie’s mother looked like when she died.

Marcie felt uncomfortable with Henrietta’s behavior and threatened to hit her if she talked about her mother again. Henrietta replied that if she did, she would throw Marcie into a well. Henrietta becomes jealous when she sees Susan hugging Marcie. Henrietta later took a home-made crossbow and revealed great aiming skills with it, hitting a tree that a cat was sitting next to. Henrietta then shot and killed a dog that had chased the two earlier, much to Marcie’s shock and horror. And she later caused a massive pile-up using a hand-made dummy named Mr. Highway.

She also implies that she probably killed her own brother before the movie’s events. A horrified Marcie tries many times to warn her uncle and aunt about Henrietta’s sick-minded behavior, but they will not listen to her. Henrietta confronts Marcie in their room when Connie shows up as well. Henrietta is displeased that Connie is in her room and makes it clear about it but is pushed away by Marcie, who pins her to a wall. Henrietta implies she is going to kill her just before Susan breaks the two up.

Susan and Wallace leave and Marcie becomes worried that Henrietta will attack Connie and finds her safe. After reading her a story to make her go to sleep, Marcie leaves the room and Henrietta reveals herself in the dark, and once again hints she will kill Connie. The next morning, Marcie wakes up and finds out Henrietta took Connie skating and leaves the house to find them. By the time she gets there, Henrietta tosses Connie onto thin ice and that she breaks through, almost drowning. Several adults rescue her, and Connie is hospitalized. Marcie once again tries to warn her uncle and her aunt, but they still refuse to listen.

Marcie later sees Henrietta talking to the therapist telling her about Marcie’s “strange behavior” successfully manipulating her. Marcie confronts Henrietta on their treehouse, where Henrietta becomes even more jealous of Marcie when she says that Susan is her mother now. Later, that night, Marcie wakes up and goes to the refrigerator at the middle of the night to get a snack and Henrietta confronts her and tells her to get whatever she wants and Marcie asks what did she do to the food, and Henrietta jokingly asks Marcie would she do something like that. Henrietta later alerts her parents about Marcie disposing the food in the garbage disposal and Susan and Wallace stop her and send her to bed.

Susan finds the rubber duck that was with Richard when he died in Henrietta’s shed and asks her about it. Henrietta lies and says she took it because “she wanted something to remember Richard by”, and she asks for it back but Susan refuses so Henry takes it away by force and runs off to the cemetery and drops it down the well. Later on, Henrietta and Marcie meet up in their room and Henrietta hints she will kill Susan. Marcie grabs a pair of scissors and pins Henrietta onto his bedroom and threatens to jab the scissors into her throat. Henrietta pressures Marcie into doing it when Wallace sees this and locks Marcie in a room until she talks.

Henrietta tricks Susan into taking a walk in the woods with her, where she finally asks if she killed her baby brother since she earlier found one the rubber duck in Henrietta’s possession, to which she replies “What if I did?”, shocking her mother and making her see the monster Henrietta truly is. Refusing to be sent somewhere where she would be given special treatment for her behavior, she tricks Susan into following her to a cliff and pushes her off, but she hangs herself to a branch below.

Henrietta tries to drop a large rock on Susan to finish her off, but Marcie immediately comes to her rescue and battles Henrietta. As the two girls wrestle, they almost fall down the cliff, but Susan (having just reached the top) hangs onto them both tries to save them both, but soon realizes that only one can be saved. Remembering that Henrietta tried to kill her (and would likely try again), being too dangerous to be left alive and beyond saving, she reluctantly releases Henrietta, despite her desperate pleas that he loves her, leaving her screaming and falling to her death onto the rocks below. Susan pulls Marcie up from the ledge and they look down upon Henrietta’s body on the rocks below before she is washed away into the sea, and they both share an emotional embrace.

**Personality**

Henrietta was an extremely ruthless, dishonest, disrespectful, callous, dishonorable, rude, manipulative, sadistic, unsympathetic, selfish, and ungrateful child who never appreciated the well-being of others. She found the idea of death to be rather enthralling, with the exception of her own. Not only did Henrietta show no remorse for her actions, but she enjoyed them immensely; for example, after murdering an aggressive dog with her homemade crossbow, rather than feeling remorse or regret for what she had done, Henrietta instead felt only joy and satisfaction and had a broad, wicked smile on her face whilst watching the car accident she caused get bigger. Henrietta has been described as a Cluster B psychopath with antisocial, narcissistic, and borderline personality disorders with sadistic features. Thus, while psychopathic and twisted, she is capable of understanding why her actions are so terrible.

It seemed that envy was what awoke the beast in Henrietta as she drowned her baby brother, Richard, in the bathtub purely out of jealousy for how his parents were paying more attention to him, even giving him Henrietta's favorite rubber duck, which Henrietta kept after she killed her as it was in her words; "mine before it was his", after finding that killing Richard had been so easy for her, Henrietta discovered that she did not feel saddened when bad things happened to other people and then learned to live by a philosophy; "once you realize that you can do anything, you're free. You could fly. Nobody can touch you, nobody".

Henrietta took surprisingly little to no care of her own health, rationalizing that smoking was okay because everyone would die one way or another. Had she lived to be older, she possibly would have started using other drugs and alcohol. Henrietta stated that she used to be afraid before realizing that doing horrible things made her happy instead of sad or had no impact on her either way. Therefore, it is possible that she is willing to die in order to torment others as long as it's done by her own terms.

Henrietta's reason for attempting to kill her little sister and mother seemed to stem from a desire to devastate Marcie more than from jealousy, as she noticed how close Marcie was becoming to them both and had already demonstrated that other people's suffering thrilled him. Henrietta had already made it clear she disliked (and even hated) her sister, Connie, but it was odd how she chose to kill her mother instead of Marcie. She possibly preferred her to be dead than be a mother/mother-figure to anyone else or felt that she was too close to learning the truth about Richard's death.

Henrietta never felt any genuine love for anyone, even for her family, it was likely that she only wanted Richard out of the way so she would get all the attention and praise of her family and so that they would serve her. Henrietta was horrible to Connie; aside from trying to kill her, she would psychologically and physically torture her on many occasions and addressed her as "vermin" at one point.

Henrietta was also surprisingly calculating for her young age, she was able to make the murder of Richard and the attempted murder of Connie seem like an accident. She also stretched out her hand towards Connie to make it seem like she was trying to save her, though considering his sadistic personality, she may have also tantalized her sister by keeping his hand right out of her reach.

Had Henrietta gotten away with killing her mother, she could have lied about it, having been there when it happened and it would have been surmised that she had either fallen or committed suicide due to her heartbreak over Richard's death, the latter of which is something everyone knew she felt guilty for. Henrietta also convinced everyone that Marcie's grievance over his mother was driving her to insanity, keeping all suspicion off herself, and was even willing to blame her for the traffic collision she caused.

At first, Henrietta's psychopathic nature had simply been due to jealousy, but since then it had developed to the point that another person's life having value was a fact that Henrietta simply ignored. The shine she took to Marcie at first was possible because she saw Marcie as a potential pawn rather than a friend, as she viewed everyone she knew as disposable if they no longer satisfied her needs or posed a threat to her freedom (which was what she valued above everything else).

What was really disturbing about Henrietta was that she understood the difference between right and wrong, and knew perfectly well that what she was doing was bad but she did not care. If she wanted to do something and if it was within her reach to do it, she would - without caring at all about how it affected other people or, as mentioned above, if she endangered her life in the process.

Despite Henrietta's interest in death and enjoyment for causing it to others, she valued her own life and was afraid of dying herself; as far as Henrietta was concerned, it was OK for everyone except herself to die or be in pain (or at least, refusing to let others kill her unless she wants to), she briefly tried to convince Marcie to follow in her footsteps and give up all traces of empathy so her life would be better, possibly implying that Henrietta thought everyone should be like her. Henrietta also had a ridiculously excessive sense of self-worth, as she felt that he was entitled to everything she wanted just because she wanted it, with no rational reasoning.

Henrietta's greatest weakness was her incapability to understand love completely, this was evident by when she still thought that her mother would always love her unconditionally, even after she had subtly admitted to killing Richard to her mother and then tried to kill her despite her trying to reach her upon finding out her true nature. Henrietta also asked Marcie if a person is expected to cry at their mother's funeral, apparently only guessing that it is something most people would do.

**Appearance**

Henrietta Evans is a slender young girl with blonde hair, brown eyes and pale skin. Henrietta wears a lot of red and black winter clothes. She also loves to wear plaid as she is seen wearing a lot of red and black or black and white plaid in the movie. Henrietta also wore one black Nike and one white Nike shoe on each foot.