# Flight — Character guide

> Key figures in Flight by Walter White.

- [Mimi Daquin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/flight_se/characters/mimi_daquin.md): Mimi arrives at Mrs. Hunter's salon as her stepmother's carefully timed accessory, only to hear the assembled ladies mock Mrs. Adams for passing at the opera and then warmly greet her the moment she appears. That whiplas
- [Francine](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/flight_se/characters/francine.md): From her throne of silks and chiffons, Madame Francine runs a house where wealthy wives come to be transformed, and she measures people the way she measures cloth — by what they can bear. She watches Mimi rise from drape
- [Jean Daquin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/flight_se/characters/jean_daquin.md): Jean sees the changes in Mimi — the hardening, the race-consciousness, the drift away from their old comradeship — and grieves without scolding, choosing instead to leave books where she will find them and to ask casual 
- [Carl Hunter](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/flight_se/characters/carl_hunter.md): When Mimi stops seeing him, Carl doesn't grieve quietly — he stays out nights, comes home drunk, and defies his father's churchgoing expectations with a recklessness that scandalizes the very set his family anchors. His 
- [Hilda Adams](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/flight_se/characters/hilda_adams.md): Across Mrs. Hunter's crowded parlor, Hilda and Mimi lock eyes and something wordless passes between them — a recognition that outlasts the gossip swirling around Hilda's mother. She whispers the room's secrets to Mimi wi
- [Old Jean](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/flight_se/characters/old_jean.md): Old Jean is the companion of Mimi's earlier years, the one whose conversations gave her a maturity beyond her age and whose quiet presence shaped her before the world got louder. Now their talks grow infrequent and less 
- [Mrs. Daquin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/flight_se/characters/mrs_daquin.md): Mrs. Daquin moves through the drawing rooms of Atlanta's Black elite with calculated grace, arriving twenty minutes late because she knows a dramatic entrance is worth more than punctuality. At Mrs. Hunter's reception, s
- [Jimmie Forrester](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/flight_se/characters/jimmie_forrester.md): Jimmie breezes through life on the Century to Chicago, delegating theatre escorts and tossing off patronizing sneers at Jews, Japanese, and Italians without a second thought. He is a dear, as Mimi concedes, but frightful
- [Mrs. Hunter](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/flight_se/characters/mrs_hunter.md): Carl Hunter's mother, a presence in the social dynamics.
- [Mary Robertson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/flight_se/characters/mary_robertson.md): A woman from Chicago, possibly a friend or rival.
- [Mrs. Rogers](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/flight_se/characters/mrs_rogers.md): A minor character in the social circle.
- [Bert Bellamy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/flight_se/characters/bert_bellamy.md): An acquaintance with a minor role in the narrative.
- [Mrs. Horace Crosby](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/flight_se/characters/mrs_horace_crosby.md): A married woman in the social circle, possibly connected to Jimmie.
- [Mrs. Adams](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/flight_se/characters/mrs_adams.md): Hilda's mother, a background figure.
- [The Mannings](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/flight_se/characters/the_mannings.md): A family mentioned in the social fabric of the story.
- [Sylvia Smith](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/flight_se/characters/sylvia_smith.md): A woman with a name that appears in various contexts.
- [Dr. Adams](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/flight_se/characters/dr_adams.md): A doctor, possibly related to Hilda.
- [Margot](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/flight_se/characters/margot.md): A minor character with a brief presence.
- [Henry Meekins](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/flight_se/characters/henry_meekins.md): A minor character who appears in a specific scene.
- [Aunt Sophie](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/flight_se/characters/aunt_sophie.md): An aunt figure, likely part of the extended family.
- [Mr. Robertson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/flight_se/characters/mr_robertson.md): Mary's father, mentioned briefly.

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