Deadlock · Character

Sissie Bailey

A Bailey daughter whose dim, shabby dining-room world Miriam re-enters, only to find the family gathered in a strange, faraway stillness under the gaslight.

supporting

Also known as Sissie

First appearance: I

As a supporting figure in Deadlock, Sissie Bailey is not background color—the story leans on what they do once the chapter opens.

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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 and Mr. Gunner's watch-in-hand intimacy define the room's uneasy social weather, and Miriam's sudden interested reappearance threatens to break through a barrier of long-unnoticed forms. Sissie's world matters because it is the place Miriam must re-enter after turning away during the bad period, testing whether charm and shared gay acknowledgment can revive what shabbiness has deadened.

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Professional
Family
Social
Other

Character groups

Minor recurring figures
Protagonist
Miriam's social circle

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Story tension across the book — this chapter sits in Exposition.

Setup
Escalation
Breaking point

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Relationships

Miriam Henderson
professional · negative
Miriam is responsible for Sissie's education and care, but their relationship is strained… How this plays out →
Mr. Shatov
social · ambivalent
Mrs. Bailey
family · negative
Miriam Henderson
professional · negative
Miriam is responsible for Sissie's education and care, but their relationship is strained… How this plays out →
Mrs. Bailey
family · negative

Miriam Henderson
Miriam is responsible for Sissie's education and care, but their relationship is strained by Sissie's rebelliousness.
Mr. Shatov
Mr. Shatov is a family acquaintance of the Baileys, with a distant, polite relationship with Sissie.
Mrs. Bailey
Mrs. Bailey is Sissie's mother, but their relationship is cold and authoritarian, lacking maternal warmth.
Miriam Henderson
Miriam is responsible for Sissie's education and care, but their relationship is strained by Sissie's rebelliousness.
Mrs. Bailey
Mrs. Bailey is Sissie's mother, but their relationship is cold and authoritarian, lacking maternal warmth.

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