Describe Miss Honey’s relationship to other members of the family.

Miss Honey is Ernest's mother and grandmother to Charley and Ralph Angel. She offers to let both Charley and Ralph Angel move in with her as they build lives in St. Josephine.

She feels guilty for her role in Ralph Angel's life. She paid his mother's family money to keep his pregnant mother away from his father when he moved to California. Eventually, Ralph Angel went to live with Ernest but acted erratically and was sent back to St. Josephine. While he was gone, his mother committed suicide. Miss Honey carries the guilt of a broken father-son relationship, the death of Ralph Angel's mother, and his poor life choices that constantly land him in trouble and jobless.

Miss Honey is addicted to aspirin headache powders that she pours into Coca-Cola at least once a day. She is a motherly woman who loves children. Sometimes she argues with her son and daughter because she believes she knows best, especially when any conflict concerns Ralph Angel. The do not know her secret, though, about her role in manipulating his life.