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Sophie is a resident of "Hooverville", a shanty town(or tent city, as we might call it today) that formed in New York City during the Great Depression. In her main scene and musical number("Hooverville") she cooks and serves soup to the bums and other homeless people, including Annie and Sandy when Annie runs away from the orphanage. There is some indication that, prior to the Depression, she was affluent or at least in the middle class. The character features more in the stage play than in the popular 1982 movie(I cannot comment on later adaptations).

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