Henrietta Evans

**Henrietta Evans** is the main antagonist in the 1993 psychological thriller 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

**Early Life**

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 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 where she loved building deadly weapons she tested out and used to kill animals and life sized dummies she used when causing car accidents. Henrietta also enjoyed going ice skating or on hikes in the woods.

**The Good Daughter**

After Marcie’s mother died from a disease, Marcie was sent to live with Henrietta and her family, consisting of Henrietta’s father Wallace, her mother Susan, and her little sister Connie. Henrietta revealed to Marcie that her brother Richard had drowned in the bathtub. She and Marcie were friends until Henrietta revealed increasingly psychopathic behavior, starting out when she smoked and pressured Marcie into doing it, 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. Henry replied that if she did, he would throw Marcie into a well.

Henrietta becomes jealous when she sees Susan hugging Marcie. Henrietta later showed Marcie a crossbow she made herself and showed off her skills with crossbow shooting to Marcie, hitting a tree that a cat was sitting next to. A few days later, when Henrietta and Marcie decided to go out crossbow shooting again, Henrietta shot and killed a dog that had chased the two earlier, much to Marcie’s shock and horror. Marcie tries to tell Wallace and Susan, but Henrietta scares her off by reminding her that she was with her when it happened and was a part of it. 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 leaves and Marcie becomes worried that Henrietta will attack Connie and finds her safe. After reading her a bedtime 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 ice skating and leaves the house to find them. By the time she gets there, Henrietta has tossed Connie onto thin ice and she breaks through, almost freezing to death. Several adults rescue her but oddly don’t fall through themselves, and Connie is hospitalized. Marcie tells Susan about what really happened on the ice but Susan refuses to believe her. Marcie later confronts Henrietta on their treehouse, where Henrietta becomes even more jealous of Marcie when she says that Susan is her mother now.

Susan finds the rubber duck that was with Richard when he died in Henrietta’s shed and asks her about it. Henrietta takes it away and throws it down a 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 and threatens to jab the scissors into his throat. Henrietta pressures Marcie into doing it when Wallace sees this and locks Marcie in a room and says she needs to stay there until she wants to talk. Henrietta brings Susan into the forest where she asks if he did kill Richard. Afraid she will be sent away after revealing the truth, Henrietta runs away and Susan follows her. She tricks her into committing suicide and knocks her off a cliff, but she manages to hang on to the edge. Henrietta tries to throw a rock down on her, but Marcie frees herself and fights Henrietta while Susan climbs up with cliff. As they wrestle around on the edge of the cliff, Henrietta overpowers Marcie and starts strangling her and, using the last of her strength, Marcie pushes Henrietta off her and they roll off the edge of a cliff. Susan holds onto both of them with each hand, but she can only save one. It’s a hard decision but she has to do something, so she lets Henrietta go and she falls to her death on the rocks below the cliffs. Susan pulls Marcie up and they share an emotional embrace as waves wash Henrietta’s dead body into the sea.

## 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 his 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 he had done, Henrietta instead felt only joy and satisfaction and had a broad, wicked smile on his 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 her parents were paying more attention to her, even giving her Henrietta’s favorite rubber duck, which Henrietta kept after she killed him as it was in her words; “It was 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 her. 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 he was trying to save her, though considering her sadistic personality, she may have also tantalized her sister by keeping her 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 her 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 Henry 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 he 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 he 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 she 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. While meeting her cousin Marcie, Henrietta wore a white-and-black plaid button-up shirt with red lines, a white shirt, black jeans and black tennis shoes. While playing with Marcie, Henrietta wore a light blue denim jacket, a red shirt, blue jeans, gray fingerless gloves and black tennis shoes. At bedtime, Henrietta wears red-and-white plaid pajamas. While using Mr. Highway to cause car wrecks and taking her sister Connie skating, Henry wore a black winter hat, a dark blue winter coat, a white sweater with a red shirt underneath, black and white Nike shoes and black jeans. Before his death, Henry wore a red and green plaid winter coat, a red sweater, a black vest, black jeans and black shoes.