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Matey Pearson

Tub Pearson's plump, unpretentious wife, whose famous atrocious jewelry and horror of dirty trains make her a comic counterweight to Fran's European ambitions.

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Also known as Matey, good old Matey, Pearson

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Matey arrives in Paris as half of the Pearson pair, the solid Zenith couple whose first trip abroad Sam Dodsworth secretly orchestrates to surprise them at the Gare du Nord. She is fat, uninteresting by Fran's…

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Relationship types

  • Other

Character groups

  • Fran's European circle
  • Family and close ties
  • Sam's American contacts
  • Wider social orbit
  • Sam's business network

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

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  • Escalation
  • Breaking point

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