In the story, “The Skating Party,” the author uses four characterizations to describe the characters. There are several things that the author considers such as dress, mannerisms, speech, attitudes, peculiarities, and treatment of others. “The Skating Party” takes place in a small town named Willow Bunch, where Nathan Singleton talks about his life to his brother’s son. Nathan had been looking for a wife to start a farm with, so he could quit working as a teacher. Nathan falls in love with a young lady named Delia Sykes, but he soon realized that she was married to Dobson Sykes. Delia had set up him and Delia’s older sister Eunice Latham, the reason she did that was so that she could see Nathan, because she secretly loved him. Nathan and Eunice fall in love and get married, on their wedding night, they have a skating party. Delia takes Nathan and they skate off, when they get back the two sisters argue and skate off together. This led to the accident where Eunice and Delia fall through the ice, Eunice dies, only because they only had enough time to save one girl. Delia is portrayed as very pretty, bold, likes attention, independent, likes to have fun, through the characterization method. The actions and choices Delia makes throughout the story effects how her life is placed. Delia loved to have attention and have fun all the time. “On Sunday afternoon Eunice was sitting at the pump organ playing for us, and she was beautiful. We were all sitting around looking at her.’ ’And then somebody happened to glance out of the window,’ Uncle Nathan said. ‘And there was Delia on the pony and the pair of them putting on a regular rodeo.’ ‘She didn't break her neck, which was a wonder. By the time she finally got off the pony, we were all out in the yard, and somebody had the idea of taking a picture of Delia and Eunice on the pony.” (Page 198) All she wanted was to have all of the attention on her, other than her sister Eunice. Delia didn't care much for the supplies and furniture she bought. “The more things you've got, the more you've got to take care of,’ she said. She didn't even unpack most of her trunks.” (Page 196) Delia was careless of the things she had. Delia Sykes actions were for attention and were very careless. When Nathan looked at an old photo of Delia, he said she was beautiful. “Uncle Nathan looked at the picture too. ‘Delia always was a beauty,’ he said.” (Page 192) The reason he had said that was because he had loved her at one point in his life. When Nathan first met Delia, he thought she was Dob