The Crazy Epperson Sisters

The Epperson sisters, Eustace, Cora, and Annie were "genuinely not right."(pg 16) One day in spring the Epperson sisters decide that they are triplets and go to the county clerck to declare themselves as triplets. When they get to the county clerck, Mr. Woodley, he notices that one is considerably older than the other two, and that they do not look alike. Eustace the oldest looking one, asks the clerck to check to check the records and find a document that certifies their triplethood. After Mr. Woodley researches the Eppersons, he discovers that the three are not triplets and one, Cora, is not even an Epperson sister, but a cousin of the Eppersons. All of the Eppersons start to cry out that the statement is a lie. Because Mr. Woodley wants some peace, he offers to declare Cora and Annie as twins. They do not seem happy about that so the sheriff, Sheriff Browner, decides to let the three women legitimize their triplethood if they can get fifty adults to sign a petition that verifies their triplethood. They claim "that they have been victimized by somesort of terrible prenatal injustice."(pg 21) Everyone that is asked signs because they see no harm in making them triplets. After getting fifty people to sign the petition, The Epperson sisters take the petition to Sheriff Browner. Three days after the legalized triplethood, two men who work for the state, come and take the three Epperson sisters away. They take them to Dix Hill mental facility where they are declared to be "disoriented as to reality."(pg 23)

Something must have happened to contribute to their insanity. The death of their parents at a very early age could have been a factor to their insanity. It is also very weird that Cora does not remember being a cousin since she was brought to the Epperson's when she was five years old. These three women are not the only insane people in this book, but they appealed to me for strange many reasons and now we will have to see what crazy people do next int the town of Neely.