Confessions of an English Opium-Eater · Character
Ann
A friendless girl of the London streets whose brief kindness to a starving scholar becomes one of the book's most haunting and unrecoverable losses.
supporting
Also known as Ann, Mary
First appearance: Preliminary Confessions
As a supporting figure in Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, Ann is not background color—the story leans on what they do once the chapter opens.
A dear companion from his London days, with whom he shared tender moments and from whom he was suddenly and critically separated forever.
She moves through the narrator's London exile as a companion in destitution, sharing what little she has with a young man who has nothing. The bond is tender and precarious, shadowed by the knowledge that such figures vanish easily from the city's records and from memory. Her disappearance lodges in the narrator's conscience and later resurfaces in his opium dreams, making her the emotional counterweight to his philosophical self-possession.
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- Opium-Era Associates
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See Ann in Preliminary Confessions