# Hay Fever — Character guide

> Key figures in Hay Fever by Noël Coward.

- [Judith Bliss](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/hay_fever_se/characters/judith_bliss.md): Judith runs the household as a stage, learning flower names by heart and tapping the barometer when a plan is brewing. Her children distrust her 'Squire's lady' moods, and her husband is too buried in his novel to notice
- [David Bliss](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/hay_fever_se/characters/david_bliss.md): David presides over a house strewn with his son's cartoons and his wife's theatrics, but his real address is the library and whatever book he is writing. He surfaces mainly to complain that everybody talks too much, then
- [Sorel Bliss](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/hay_fever_se/characters/sorel_bliss.md): Sorel lounges on the sofa mocking a friend's florid poetry while privately wishing she were a normal, bouncing English girl with a passion for games. She has invited Richard Greatham down without telling her brother, and
- [Simon Bliss](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/hay_fever_se/characters/simon_bliss.md): Simon sprawls in a dirty tennis shirt amid his cartoons and sheet music, cheerfully ignorant of the diplomat his sister has invited and mildly annoyed she didn't say so. He is flirtatious, distractible, and entirely at h
- [Myra Arundel](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/hay_fever_se/characters/myra_arundel.md): Myra submits to Judith's party games with acid asides about the hostess's professional advantages, then refuses to continue when the spotlight shifts. She is charming, calculating, and unimpressed by Bliss theatrics, whi
- [Richard Greatham](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/hay_fever_se/characters/richard_greatham.md): Richard arrives as Sorel's guest, a well-known diplomatist expected to be impressed by the Blisses and to impress them in turn. Instead he is drafted into Judith's parlour games, mishears the word, and gets scolded for d
- [Sandy Tyrell](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/hay_fever_se/characters/sandy_tyrell.md): A hungry young boxer who raids the breakfast table, gets hiccups, and finds himself engaged to Sorel before he knows what happened.
- [Jackie Coryton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/hay_fever_se/characters/jackie_coryton.md): A nervous young guest who weeps over breakfast, trades horror stories with Sandy, and wishes she had never set foot in the Bliss house.
- [Pam](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/hay_fever_se/characters/pam.md): A young woman mentioned by the Blisses as a potential romantic interest for Simon.
- [Mr. Bliss](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/hay_fever_se/characters/mr_bliss.md): The elderly father of David Bliss, who appears briefly in the household.

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