Miss Gribben is the antagonist of the psychological horror novel called Cracks and the 2009 film of the same name.
History[]
Gribben grew up as a student at St Mathilda and had aspirations to travel to the world to explore it, howevel unfortunately for Gribben, she developed agoraphobia fear of the outside world that made her unable to go far from her village where she was at school. She then built a facade to impress her students in which she succeeded. At the beginning of the story she is adored by her student especially Di Radfield who is in love with her. In exchange for this she goes on her canoe trips and gives her books so she has a very pleasant relationship with friends.
However, when a new student named Fiamma Coronna daughter of the Italian aristocrat (Spanish in the film), Gribben becomes obsessed with her, which leads Di to become jealous and resentful towards Fiamma. However, Fiamma and Di begin to understand each other and become friends. But soon after Gribben gives the girls permission to use alcohol they do, Fiamma then drinks he alcohol, and soon afterwards Gribben takes her to her hidden room giving Gribben the opportunity to rape and molest her. However, Di sees everything and she is shocked, but she still didn't known that Fiamma had been molested by Gribben.
Then Gribben tries to make Fiamma come back, but nevertheless, Fiamma humiliates her by saying that all girls will know about her true colors. With that, Gribben then manipulates Di by saying that Fiamma intended to spread lies about her and everyone. Di and other girls chase Fiamma and beat her up for an asthma attack.
The group panics, Di then orders the girls to ask for help while she finds her inhaler. But nevertheless, Gribben leaves Fiamma to die. With this, Di shocked by the actions saw of Gribben leaves her idolatry aside and tells all the girls the whole truth about Gribben furious.
After that Gribben is fired and lives in an inn an reimains in solitude for the rest of his life.
Personality[]
Gribben is a woman with a very unstable mind who has agoraphobia and anxiety problems. She is quite eccentric and somewhat childish, she liked to want to be an exciting and experienced traveler although her story was fabricated and a lie. She also showed her friendly charisma with others, but when the new student Fiamma arrived. She became totally obsessed with the girl, to the point that she became rude and moody towards others. She was also willing to rape Fiamma and make her students attack Fiamma, and felt no remorse for Fiamma's death caused by her.
Appearance[]
Gibben is a very attractive woman who has brown hair who usually wears a lot of makeup. She also dresses in chic and elegant clothes.
Gallery[]
External links[]
- Miss Gribben at the Villains Wiki