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Veruca Salt is a fictional character from Roald Dahl's classic story Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. She is a very spoiled, immature, overindulgent, and manipulative little girl who is also very rich that lives in a mansion with her parents. Veruca is treated like a princess by her parents and give her anything she wants, no matter how ridiculous the price and expresses no gratitude at all from anybody, not even her own parents for what she is given. She is the second person to find a Golden Ticket, although she never found it herself since one of her father's workers in his nut-shelling factory did so after buying a large amount of boxes full of Wonka bars. Veruca is also the third contestant to be eliminated from the tour of Willy Wonka's chocolate factory after she demanded to be given a squirrel from the Nut-Sorting Room where she is thrown down a rubbish chute by said squirrels after being decreed a "bad nut" when she tried to take one anyway when Mr. Wonka denied to give her one, saying that they weren't for sale.
The irresistible Sully, who in the intervening years has come by some unexpected good fortune, is staring down a VA cardiologist's estimate that he has only a year or two left, and it's hard work trying to keep this news from the most important people in his life: Ruth, the married woman he carried on with for years ... the ultra-hapless Rub Squeers, who worries that he and Sully aren't still best friends ... Sully's son and grandson, for whom he was mostly an absentee figure (and now a regretful one). We also enjoy the company of Doug Raymer, the chief of police who's obsessing primarily over the identity of the man his wife might've been about to run off with, before dying in a freak accident ... Bath's mayor, the former academic Gus Moynihan, whose wife problems are, if anything, even more pressing ... and then there's Carl Roebuck, whose lifelong run of failing upward might now come to ruin. And finally, there's Charice Bond - a light at the end of the tunnel that is Chief Raymer's office - as well as her brother, Jerome, who might well be the train barreling into the station.
