# Mrs. Garrett — Gullible’s Travels character guide

> Mrs. Garrett in Gullible’s Travels by Ring Lardner.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Garrett, Mrs. Garrett

**First appearance:** 0001-gullible-s-travels

## Snapshot

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.

## Who they are

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.

## Relationships

### [Unknown Narrator](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/gullible_s_travels_se/characters/unknown_narrator)

_social_

Mrs. Garrett is a community figure who interacts with the narrator in social settings, possibly as a gossip or matchmaker.

### [Unknown Narrator](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/gullible_s_travels_se/characters/unknown_narrator)

_social_

Mrs. Garrett is a community figure who interacts with the narrator in social settings, possibly as a gossip or matchmaker.

### [Unknown Narrator](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/gullible_s_travels_se/characters/unknown_narrator)

_social_

Mrs. Garrett is a community figure who interacts with the narrator in social settings, possibly as a gossip or matchmaker.

## In the story

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

Hostess and leading female bridge player, who becomes angry at the narrator's bidding.

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