# Deadlock — Character guide

> Key figures in Deadlock by Dorothy M. Richardson.

- [Miriam Henderson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/deadlock_se/characters/miriam_henderson.md): A watchful, self-divided young woman who measures every drawing room and creed against her own unsoundable convictions, and rarely says the cutting thing she thinks.
- [Mr. Shatov](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/deadlock_se/characters/mr_shatov.md): A gentle, argumentative Englishman who invites Miriam to think aloud with him, then cheerfully absorbs her contradictions without ever quite conceding his own.
- [Eve](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/deadlock_se/characters/eve.md): Fragile, radiant Eve, the family's beautiful problem, who stuns everyone by taking possession of a tiny sweet-shop and making it entirely, blissfully her own.
- [Mrs. Bailey](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/deadlock_se/characters/mrs_bailey.md): A kindly, dreamy landlady whose tolerant smile and immovable lodgers make her parlor a stage Miriam must perform upon to prove her life still coheres.
- [Miss Scott](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/deadlock_se/characters/miss_scott.md): The grave-eyed man whose silent, rose-offering courtship ambushes Miriam between the mirror's lonely image and the startling discovery that love was there all along.
- [Mr. Leyton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/deadlock_se/characters/mr_leyton.md): A mild, instrument-scrubbing office man whose warm room and borrowed mirror offer Miriam small comforts, and whose bookshelf hides a quiet insult to her sex.
- [Mr. Gunner](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/deadlock_se/characters/mr_gunner.md): A male character, possibly a servant or tradesman, with recurring mentions.
- [Elspeth](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/deadlock_se/characters/elspeth.md): Elspeth moves through a household where men's meetings fill the hall with top-hats while women are admitted on sufferance, crowded into stuffy galleries and seen as human only through their consecration to relationships.
- [Sissie Bailey](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/deadlock_se/characters/sissie_bailey.md): Sissie belongs to the Bailey household, an island group in a waste of dreary increasing shabbiness, where boarders and family sit stupefied by endurance and the clock has stopped. Her mother's quiet withholding dignity a
- [Mrs. Orly](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/deadlock_se/characters/mrs_orly.md): Mrs. Orly moves through the social world Miriam inhabits, a married woman whose settled life offers a quiet counterpoint to Miriam's restless hunger for experience. Her recurring appearances keep before the reader the qu
- [Gerald](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/deadlock_se/characters/gerald.md): Gerald stands eloquently silent in drawing-rooms and at street corners, a man whose gentle certainty about love collides with Miriam's overwhelmed sense of inadequate youth. He offers a rose with childlike plaintive brow
- [Emerson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/deadlock_se/characters/emerson.md): A character or family name, possibly a philosophical reference or acquaintance.
- [Mr. Rodkin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/deadlock_se/characters/mr_rodkin.md): A commercial man, possibly a shopkeeper or businessman, with limited presence.
- [Mr. Hancock](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/deadlock_se/characters/mr_hancock.md): A male character, possibly a friend or colleague, with occasional mentions.
- [Harriett](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/deadlock_se/characters/harriett.md): A woman, possibly a friend or relative, with named appearances.
- [Jan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/deadlock_se/characters/jan.md): A character, possibly a servant or acquaintance, with pronoun-heavy presence.
- [Michael Shatov](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/deadlock_se/characters/michael_shatov.md): A male character, possibly related to Mr. Shatov, with limited appearances.
- [Newman](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/deadlock_se/characters/newman.md): A character, possibly a friend or colleague, with pronoun-heavy presence.
- [Mr. Lahitte](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/deadlock_se/characters/mr_lahitte.md): A male character, possibly a friend or associate, with limited presence.

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