Annie is introduced in the story as a waitress at a local diner in Rockwell, Maine. She is a widow with a nine-year-old son HOgarth. She spends most of the film trying to keep up with her son and his endless energy, and spends a lot of time worrying about him as he often enters into situations that threaten his safety. Annie is very independent, self-reliant, and hardworking. She worries about how she will make ends meet and care for her son all alone, and often feels guilty when she leaves him alone and has to work late at the diner some nights. She develops a lot of faith in her son and teaches him to be self-sufficient, and finds some happiness at the end of the movie when she starts dating Dean McCoppin, a man who creates art from pieces in a junkyard and helped protect her son and the giant. Show less «