![]() She’s also creative and resourceful, like when she suggests that she and Jamie pack their musical instrument cases with extra clothing, or when she comes up with the idea to bathe in the museum restaurant’s fountain. Besides being intelligent and attentive to detail, she is a meticulous planner who spends weeks researching and preparing for running away. Claudia is a straight-A student and an ambitious girl, taking lots of extracurricular lessons like violin and art appreciation. She also loves luxuries like hot fudge sundaes and long baths she gets cranky when she’s tired, cold, or sweaty. The only problem is that Claudia hates being uncomfortable, so she chooses the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan as her hiding place. She will return home after the rest of her family has learned to appreciate her and her parents have stopped such “injustices” as making her do chores and giving her a meager allowance. Tired of her monotonous life in Greenwich, Connecticut and the responsibilities of life as the oldest sibling and only girl, Claudia decides she wants to run away to New York City, taking her second-youngest brother, Jamie, along with her. ![]() ![]() Claudia is the novel’s protagonist and, at almost 12, the eldest of the four Kincaid children. ![]()
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