Veruca Salt is a fictional character from the Roald Dahl novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and the subsequent film adaptations. Veruca, the spoiled and greedy only daughter of the wealthy . .   Expand    Wikipedia

Veruca Salt is a fictional character from the Roald Dahl novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and the subsequent film adaptations. Veruca, the spoiled and greedy only daughter of the wealthy Henry and Angina Salt, regularly exerts petulant behavior in order to get what she desires, and even her parents are not immune to her loud screaming outbursts and tantrums. She shamelessly browbeats her parents (usually her father in the film adaptations) over material things. When Veruca demands that she must have a Golden Ticket, her father buys numerous cases of Wonka Bars, and orders his factory workers to put aside their regular duties of peanut-shelling and unwrap the bars, although stopping regular work in his factory would cost him business. The process lasts three days, all of which Veruca spends complaining and screaming that she doesn't have her ticket, and her father vows to keep up the search until he finds one for her. On the fourth day the ticket is finally found, Veruca is "all smiles again." Little more of Veruca is revealed at her interview and her father does all the talking. Charlie Bucket comments that he doesn't think the father played it fair while the grandmothers say that Veruca is worse than "the fat boy" and deserves a "good spanking". On the tour, Veruca demands her father get her an Oompa-Loompa, then a chocolate river and pink sweet-boat like Wonka's, and finally the demand that proves her undoing - one of Wonka's squirrels. Mr Salt later confesses to Wonka that he knows his daughter is "a bit of a frump," yet says that it's no reason for his daughter to be "burned to a crisp," on the grounds that he and his wife love their daughter very much.

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