Martha Carrier, wife to Thomas and mother of five children, is the high-spirited and highly-intelligent woman who sacrifices her life to prove her witch-hunting tormentors cowards and manipulators. Martha comes from an old family in Massachusetts (Carrier) and displays the independence from social norms that often accompanies that elevated status. By her intelligence, wit and facile conversation she is not only the heroine of the book but the real strength of her family.
