Everyone should has his own characteristics. Some of those characteristics should be positive while some should be negative, and they might be changed as time passes and things happens. Throughout the story "Tears, Idle Tears" , the author shows that Mrs.Dickinson has characteristics of beautiful, independent and demanding person. It is so common to describe a woman a beautiful. Especially when Mrs.Dickinson is a typical model of beauty. She is well fashioned in what she wears, she has real good dressings. "She was a gallant-looking woman, ....