Jenny MacArthur

Jenny MacArthur

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    The League
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Character Analysis

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Living... in a large house in Winnetka, Ill., with her husband, Kevin, and their children – 8-year-old daughter, Ellie, and baby boy Christopher.

Profession... stay-at-home mom. She is supported financially by her husband but is by no means at his mercy. Jenny has an extremely strong personality and takes every opportunity to assert her role as the dominant force in her family.

Interests... football. Jenny is as much "one of the guys" as Kevin and his group of friends, spending a majority of her free time watching football and playing in their fantasy football league. She wants to win just as badly as Kevin and fellow league-members and friend Pete, Ruxin and Andre, as well as her brother-in-law Taco. (Actually, Taco doesn’t really care, but that’s another story altogether.)

Relationship Status... married to Kevin. Though they both love football, their union would probably be more stable if the sport never existed. Kevin feels threatened by Jenny’s superior pigskin knowledge, which isn’t helped by the way Jenny aggressively lords it over him. But hey, all’s fair in love and fantasy football.

Challenge... winning the league without destroying her marriage. Jenny lives for fantasy football and the chance to reign victorious over her husband and their friends. In fact, she doesn’t just aspire to win: "What I want to do is inflict as much pain on each and every one of you as possible." Of course, when that competitive zeal seeps into her marriage, as it inevitably does, nobody’s a winner.

Personality... sports-crazed, foul-mouthed, and hyper-competitive. Jenny can scheme and trash-talk with the best of them, once telling Ruxin about his habit of endlessly tinkering with his roster: "Tinker away, Tinkerbell, straight to Never-Never-Win Land." She will lie, collude, and cheat as much as the rest of them, willing to win at any cost. But when victory is so sweet, can you blame her?

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