Wendy Darling and his wife, Mary. Wendy shares a nursery room with her two brothers, Michael and John. However, in the Disney version, her father decides that "it's high time she had a room of her own" and kicks her out of the nursery for "stuffing the boys' heads with a lot of silly stories", but changes his mind at the end of the film after he returns home with his wife after the party. Wendy is the most developed character in the story of Peter Pan, and is often considered the central protagonist. She is proud of her own childhood and
In the Light of What We Know lists of best books for 2014, including in "The Observer", "The Times Literary Supplement", "Slate", "Kirkus Reviews", "NPR", "The Daily Telegraph"., "The Atlantic", "Barnes and Noble Review", and "The New Yorker". Selecting it as one of three great novels she read in 2014, critic Wendy Lesser wrote that the novel reminded her of Joseph Conrad because of “the layers of narrators (there are two) and the contemplative weave of politics and fiction…The characters’ complicated lives, which are at the foreground of the book, persuasively justify everything.” Philip French described it as “dazzling…what Henry James called a ‘large, loose, baggy monster’