His Family · Character
Harold Sloane
Laura's confident young suitor with twinkling eyes and a twenty-two-thousand-dollar income, everything Roger distrusts in a single polished package.
supporting
Also known as Harold Sloane, Sloane, Harold, young Sloane, Hal Sloane, Hal, Already Hal, Young Sloane
First appearance: iv
As a supporting figure in His Family, Harold Sloane is not background color—the story leans on what they do once the chapter opens.
Introduced as Laura's fiancé, a young, self-reliant broker who appears hard and shrewd to Roger.
Sloane arrives to claim Laura with an easy assurance — a good job downtown, a honeymoon abroad, a huge yellow solitaire — and Roger, who knows rings, dislikes all of it on sight. Where Roger dreamed of crooked European streets and old cathedrals, this boy knows Europe as a chain of gorgeous new hotels, and the gap between them widens into something like grief. His courtship gives the novel its first hard look at a daughter slipping out of her father's understanding and into a life he cannot read.
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Relationship types
- Other
Character groups
- Extended Community & Servants
- Gale Family Core
- Protagonist
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- Escalation
- Breaking point
- Aftermath
- Closing
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See Harold Sloane in iv