# Bertram Cope’s Year — Character guide

> Key figures in Bertram Cope’s Year by Henry Blake Fuller.

- [Bertram Cope](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/bertram_cope_s_year_se/characters/bertram_cope.md): Cope arrives in a university town as a promising young man with fine hair, a resonant voice, and a habit of caution that shades into inexpressiveness. At Medora Phillips's dinner table he is meant to shine, but the flowe
- [Basil Randolph](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/bertram_cope_s_year_se/characters/basil_randolph.md): Randolph moves through the town with the ease of a man whose business runs itself, his brother on the board of trustees, his limousine always ready. He steps forward at the right moment to sponsor Cope, but Medora Philli
- [Medora Phillips](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/bertram_cope_s_year_se/characters/medora_phillips.md): Medora arranges flowers, lights, wine, and an accompanist, confident that her choicest circle will find Cope as charming as she does. When he makes less impression than she hoped, she blames the granddaughter, the town, 
- [Arthur Lemoyne](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/bertram_cope_s_year_se/characters/arthur_lemoyne.md): Lemoyne shares Cope's rooms and his desk of themes, and he is the first person Cope mentions when Amy calls, a fact she notices with irritation. When he returns from winning a part, he finds Cope sunk in gloom and immedi
- [Amy Leffingwell](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/bertram_cope_s_year_se/characters/amy_leffingwell.md): Amy calls Cope at his lodging house, hoping for a quiet hour, and instead hears him mention Arthur Lemoyne first and then retreat into careful, overhearable generalities. She presses him about a week of neglect, and his 
- [Joe Foster](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/bertram_cope_s_year_se/characters/joe_foster.md): Foster belongs to the small circle of people around Cope who are not competing for him, and his steadiness throws the scheming of Medora and Randolph into relief. He shares the ordinary texture of Cope's life—rooms, work
- [Hortense Dunton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/bertram_cope_s_year_se/characters/hortense_dunton.md): Hortense moves through Churchton society armed with irony and a keen eye for the difference between the staid older generation and the brilliant younger one. Her contempt for Cope becomes boundless once a dashing, well-c
- [Carolyn Thorpe](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/bertram_cope_s_year_se/characters/carolyn_thorpe.md): Carolyn is the unaggressive girl one can trust oneself with, sensible of shoe and plain of hair, easily overlooked beside fluffier or more emphatic rivals. When Cope writes to her of his own accord, she treats a handful 
- [George F. Pearson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/bertram_cope_s_year_se/characters/george_pearson.md): A colleague of Randolph, involved in academic and social circles.
- [Rosalys Cope](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/bertram_cope_s_year_se/characters/rosalys_cope.md): Cope's sister, who visits and adds family dynamics to the story.
- [Mrs. Ryder](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/bertram_cope_s_year_se/characters/mrs_ryder.md): A lively, talkative woman who appears at social events.
- [Helga](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/bertram_cope_s_year_se/characters/helga.md): A maid or servant in the Phillips home, occasionally mentioned.
- [Aunt Harriet](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/bertram_cope_s_year_se/characters/aunt_harriet.md): An elderly relative of one of the characters, mentioned briefly.

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