# Edith — Getting Married character guide

> Edith in Getting Married by George Bernard Shaw.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Miss Edith, Edith Shocked, Edie, Edith Cecil

**First appearance:** 0054-getting-married

## Snapshot

A bride-to-be whose wedding-day nerves expose the gap between romantic expectation and the grim economics of marriage.

## Who they are

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 her as the test case for whether any intelligent woman can enter marriage with her eyes open. Her hesitation gives the older characters room to argue their doctrines, and her choice will decide whether the play's critique ends in compromise or revolt.

## Relationships

### [Cecil Sykes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/getting_married_se/characters/cecil_sykes)

_romantic_

Cecil Sykes and Edith are lovers or engaged, with a relationship characterized by passion and occasional tension.

### [Reginald Hotchkiss](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/getting_married_se/characters/reginald_hotchkiss)

_social_

Edith and Reginald Hotchkiss are acquaintances with a flirtatious undertone, but no deep emotional bond.

## In the story

### [Hearth and Home](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/getting_married_se/chapters/hearth-and-home)

Mentioned in the context of home-bred women and their societal unfitness.

### [The Personal Sentimental Basis of Monogamy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/getting_married_se/chapters/the-personal-sentimental-basis-of-monogamy)

Referenced indirectly as the wife in the Candida example, though not named in the excerpt.

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