smallhobbit | Fannish 50 (45): Miss Marple

One of Miss Marple's strengths is how she relates larger matters to smaller ones. She's well known for comparing a criminal with someone she's met in her village of St Mary Mead, but also her larger reflections on life frequently tie up with the small things.

Miss Marple wandered round her garden, secateurs in hand. It had been another very hot day, too hot to go out in the afternoon, but the evening, although still warm enough for her to be without a cardigan, was very pleasant and she enjoyed the opportunity to wander around. She tutted at the number of roses that had shed their petals and briskly chopped the heads off; the heat was affecting them too. And by removing those blooms which were over, there was space for new flowers to blossom, which was true in life and not just in the garden.