Yeah, she's a real bitch underneath it all. She's the one who sold Pearl into White Slavery, from which (of course) Pearl escaped before she suffered A Fate Worse Than Death only to fall into the hands of The Deranged Crazies, a heavy-metal rock band who forced her to perform without hearing protection and thereby threatened to deafen her shell-like ears until the stage collapsed during a concert and she was able to throw off the shackles of rock-n-roll and once again embrace her true musical calling, the little-known saxophone concertoes of Johann Sebastian Bach (which she studied and perfected at the prestigious music school at the University of Southern North Dakota at Hoople). Which is why Polly has always been insanely jealous of Pearl, since Polly only plays the duck call and the orchestral music for that is quite limited.