Heidi
Grandmamma Sesemann
Clara's grandmother
Clara's wise, cheerful grandmother, who teaches Heidi to read and to pray. She brings warmth into a stiff household.
Grandmamma Sesemann is Herr Sesemann's mother and Clara's grandmother. She sweeps into the house calling for sunshine, and she gives Heidi immediate love. She is lively, playful and kind, and she treats Heidi like a favorite granddaughter.
She is the first to see what Heidi needs. With a picture book of a shepherd and his flock, she coaxes Heidi into reading, and she listens to her homesick tears. She is a mentor and a champion of reading, and she believes that books and prayer can comfort a troubled heart. Her visits are a holiday for the whole house. Even the stiffest servant seems to stand a little straighter and smile a little more when she is in the hall, and Clara's cheeks look brighter at once.
“When we are in deep sorrow, we must tell God everything, like a child to its father.”
In the story
Contains spoilers.
Grandmamma shows Heidi the book, and Heidi suddenly reads. When Heidi weeps over a hymn, Grandmamma tells her to tell God everything, as a child tells its father, and teaches her to pray.
Later she travels to the Alm with Clara, leaves her in Alm-Uncle's care and goes to the baths at Bad Ragaz. After Peter confesses to the broken chair, she forgives him, says a good deed has come from his wicked one, and promises him a penny every day for life.
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