# Vera — Futility character guide

> Vera in Futility by William Gerhardie.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Vera

**First appearance:** 0005-i

## Who they are

A named female character with limited but notable appearances.

## Relationships

### [Fanny Ivanovna](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/futility_se/characters/fanny_ivanovna)

_friendship_

Fanny and Vera are close friends who confide in each other about their romantic troubles.

### [Fanny Ivanovna](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/futility_se/characters/fanny_ivanovna)

_friendship_

Fanny and Vera are close friends who confide in each other about their romantic troubles.

### [Fanny Ivanovna](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/futility_se/characters/fanny_ivanovna)

_friendship_

Fanny and Vera are close friends who confide in each other about their romantic troubles.

## In the story

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

The narrator thinks of Vera, one of the three sisters who departed for Shanghai.

### [II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/futility_se/chapters/ii)

The youngest sister, aged fourteen, who introduces herself last.

### [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/futility_se/chapters/iii)

Sulky and defensive, denies telling the narrator about the parents' marital status, and is described as different from her elder sisters.

### [IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/futility_se/chapters/iv)

Bids farewell to the departing sisters with no excess of emotion.

### [VII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/futility_se/chapters/vii)

Sits mute in the corner, learns she is Eisenstein's daughter, and later weeps, expressing hatred for him.

### [VIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/futility_se/chapters/viii)

Returns to Petersburg and joins the sisters in urging Fanny to see their mother.

### [IX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/futility_se/chapters/ix)

Present at the theatre in the box opposite the narrator's party.

### [The Narrator's First Intervention](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/futility_se/chapters/x)

On the balcony laughing; the narrator plans for her to stay with Fanny and Nikolai.

### [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/futility_se/chapters/iii)

One of the three sisters; musically an unknown quantity.

### [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/futility_se/chapters/iii)

Appears radiant and bashful in a new frock, dances with Holdcroft.

### [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/futility_se/chapters/iii)

Appears in the drawing-room and is involved in the banter about the burst spring.

### [IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/futility_se/chapters/iv)

Vera is at the Olenins' chatting with the three American boys.

### [VI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/futility_se/chapters/vi)

One of the three sisters; her eyes are red from crying during the farewell.

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