The Little Foxes is a play written by Lillian Hellman. This story takes place during the year of 1900 in a small southern town. Regina Giddens is the story’s main character that is quarreling with her two brothers, Ben and Oscar, about a business venture they are about to embark on. In the story, Ben and Oscar are counting on Regina’s wealthy but terminally ill husband Horace to invest money in their company. Regina …showed first 75 words of 278 total…

…showed last 75 words of 278 total…of a heart spell. Regina then covers up that she did nothing to help her husband in his last dying minutes, and then takes the information about Ben and Oscar and blackmails them so she can receive a much larger share than previously discussed. Her daughter Alexandra nearly catches Regina’s plan, when she basically accuses her mother of playing a part in the death of her father; but no one else realizes the connection.