# Getting Married — Character guide

> Key figures in Getting Married by George Bernard Shaw.

- [Mrs. Bridgenorth](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/getting_married_se/characters/mrs_bridgenorth_george.md): As hostess and mother of the bride, Mrs. Bridgenorth moves through the wedding-day bustle with the ease of a woman who has done this many times before, trading dry pleasantries with Collins while the General bolts from t
- [Reginald Hotchkiss](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/getting_married_se/characters/reginald_hotchkiss.md): Hotchkiss arrives at the wedding armed with statistics and mischief, insisting that the respectable Englishman who defends marriage cannot even say which marriage he means — civil, sacramental, polygamous, or South Dakot
- [Lesbia](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/getting_married_se/characters/lesbia.md): Lesbia stands slightly apart from the wedding festivities, the sister whom Collins still hopes to marry off and whom Mrs. Bridgenorth has already written off as a permanent old maid. Her resistance is not coyness but pri
- [Leo](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/getting_married_se/characters/leo.md): Leo is the young man who wants the wedding to mean what weddings are supposed to mean — love, permanence, a future — and who cannot understand why Lesbia keeps examining the contract instead of signing it. His emotional 
- [Collins](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/getting_married_se/characters/collins.md): Collins has superintended so many wedding breakfasts that he can joke about the General's flight from the cake while quietly revealing his own long accommodation to a marriage that never quite came natural to him. His af
- [The General](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/getting_married_se/characters/the_general.md): General Bridgenorth is a man of duty and habit who has done his paternal office at wedding after wedding and now finds the ritual unbearable in a way he cannot articulate. His abrupt exit from the cake — noted by Collins
- [Edith](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/getting_married_se/characters/edith.md): Edith stands at the center of the play's wedding party, sister to Lesbia and promised to Cecil Sykes, and it is her fate that the assembled company spends the day debating. Her anxiety is not merely jitters: Shaw uses he
- [Cecil Sykes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/getting_married_se/characters/cecil_sykes.md): Cecil arrives at the wedding prepared to do the decent thing, only to find his bride's family treating matrimony as a problem in political economy rather than a sacrament. He is well-meaning but unarmed for the argument,
- [The Bishop](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/getting_married_se/characters/the_bishop.md): The Bishop represents established authority at the ceremony, called upon to bless a union whose premises the other guests are busy dismantling. His position is genuinely awkward: Christianity began as an attack on marria
- [Rejjy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/getting_married_se/characters/rejjy.md): A nickname for a family member, possibly Reginald, affectionate and teasing.
- [Soames](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/getting_married_se/characters/soames.md): A servant or minor functionary in the household.

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