The siblings' mother who sends them out to find work after their father's death. She rebukes Gretel for refusing a job and threatens to kill them if they do not leave the house. She is implied to have died by the end of the film.
Gretel is the daughter who struggles to meet her mother's harsh expectations.
Hansel is the son caught in his mother's desperate and abusive household.
The parents are a married couple managing a failing household before the father's death.
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