45 pages • 1 hour read
Lindsay CurrieThe Mystery of Locked Rooms
Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | BCEA modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more.
Character Analysis
Sarah
Sarah Greene is one of the protagonists and the narrator of The Mystery of Locked Rooms. She and her best friends Hannah and West are in seventh grade, and she and her family moved to town three years earlier. Sarah’s mother works two jobs, as a nurse and a candy store worker, to support her family. Sarah’s father was diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome a few years earlier and is now unable to work, which has put financial strain on the family. Sarah also has an older brother, Sean, who is preparing to go to college.
Sarah is very caring and loyal. She is driven by her desire to help her family, which is why she sets out to find the triplets’ treasure after her mother receives a notice of foreclosure. Sarah is also very close with West and Hannah, her best friends: “For the first time in my life, I felt like I belonged. I was the person West and Hannah were missing too, the third side of the triangle” (14). Throughout the novel, Sarah is supportive and caring toward her friends, and she always comforts them when one of them is upset or scared, highlighting the theme of 
