character traits

• what a character is like on the inside
• examples: careful, impatient, loves animals, likes to control other people
  not examples: hair color, weight, skin color
• A character’s actions, words and thoughts are evidence of character traits
• washes hands often = obsessed with germs
  “Do you need any money?” = generous

• Readers infer character traits from characters’ actions and words
• "What kind of a person would say or do that?"
  

To find out what a character is like on the inside, you have to be part detective and part psychiatrist!