Gullible’s Travels · Character
Mrs. Garrett
A hostess at a dry club dinner where the narrator's rent-betting and cocktail-hunting turn a polite evening into a slow-motion social disaster.
supporting
Also known as Garrett, Mrs. Garrett
First appearance: gullible s travels
As a supporting figure in Gullible’s Travels, Mrs. Garrett is not background color—the story leans on what they do once the chapter opens.
Hostess and leading female bridge player, who becomes angry at the narrator's bidding.
She welcomes the narrator and his Missus to a club dinner, only to have him interrogate her about rent, demand liquid refreshments, and settle a bet across her table. Her dry, unflappable replies—'The San Susie's a dry club'—set off his best deadpan rudeness. She matters because her dinner party is the book's sharpest set piece on the collision between the narrator's blunt appetites and the genteel manners he keeps failing to master.
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