Who is Opoe from The Upstairs Room and what is their importance? The_Upstairs_Room English & Literature Opoe | The Upstairs Room

Opoe, a word meaning grandmother in Dutch, is what Annie and Sini are told to call Johan's mother. Opoe is in her seventies and continually says that she won't live many more years although she has said that for many years already. Annie unknowingly lays a large copy of War and Peace in a drawer on top of Opoe's lace hat that her mother gave her. Opoe is furious over this but at the end of the story gives the hat to Annie.