# Sissie Bailey — Deadlock character guide

> Sissie Bailey in Deadlock by Dorothy M. Richardson.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Sissie

**First appearance:** 0000-i

## Snapshot

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.

## Who they are

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.

## Relationships

### [Miriam Henderson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/deadlock_se/characters/miriam_henderson)

_professional_

Miriam is responsible for Sissie's education and care, but their relationship is strained by Sissie's rebelliousness.

### [Mr. Shatov](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/deadlock_se/characters/mr_shatov)

_social_

Mr. Shatov is a family acquaintance of the Baileys, with a distant, polite relationship with Sissie.

### [Mrs. Bailey](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/deadlock_se/characters/mrs_bailey)

_family_

Mrs. Bailey is Sissie's mother, but their relationship is cold and authoritarian, lacking maternal warmth.

### [Miriam Henderson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/deadlock_se/characters/miriam_henderson)

_professional_

Miriam is responsible for Sissie's education and care, but their relationship is strained by Sissie's rebelliousness.

### [Mrs. Bailey](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/deadlock_se/characters/mrs_bailey)

_family_

Mrs. Bailey is Sissie's mother, but their relationship is cold and authoritarian, lacking maternal warmth.

## In the story

### [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/deadlock_se/chapters/i)

Sullenly informs Miriam that Mr. Shatov is out; later, her mother discusses plans for Sissie to learn typing to improve her prospects.

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