Miss Harriss
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Character Key:
Display Name:
Miss Harriss
Sort Name:
Harriss, Miss
Parent:
AKA:
Mrs. Gualdres
Race:
White
Gender:
Female
Class:
Upper Class
Rank:
Major
Vitality:
Alive
Family:
Stevens
Family (new):
First Mentioned:
Biography:
Like her mother, the 20-year-old daughter of "Mrs. Harriss" never gets a first name. In other respects too she takes after her mother: "looking not wan so much as delicate and fragile and not even fragile so much as cold, evanescent, like one of the stalked white early spring flowers bloomed ahead of its time into the snow and the ice and doomed before your eyes without even knowing that it was dying, feeling not even any pain" (190–91). Like her brother, Max, Miss Harriss has been spoiled. Not unwilling to fight her rival, Miss Cayley, Miss Harriss eventually gets her man in Sebastian Gualdres. When Gavin Stevens marries the widowed Mrs. Harriss, Mrs. Gualdres becomes one of Steven's "stepchildren" (238).
Individual or Group:
Individual
Character changes class in this text:
Date of Death:
Saturday, January 1, 1921 to Saturday, December 31, 1921
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