# Eve — Honeycomb character guide

> Eve in Honeycomb by Dorothy M. Richardson.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Dear Eve

**First appearance:** 0000-i

## Snapshot

Eve giggles in a new arch way, caught up in wedding tableaux, while Miriam watches and wonders whether she herself has become more vulgar than Eve.

## Who they are

Eve is being swept into the Henderson family's orbit by Bennett and Gerald, her giggling a new and perhaps borrowed manner, like the girls at the tennis club. She flings anemones on the table and calls Miriam's decoration 'simply lovely,' her easy warmth a counterpoint to Miriam's cool, startling command that silences the room. She matters as the sister-in-law-to-be, the wedding tableau made real, and as the mirror in which Miriam measures her own freedom, her own truth, and the cost of speaking it.

## Relationships

### [Miriam](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/honeycomb_se/characters/miriam)

_friendship_

Eve is Miriam's close friend and confidante, though their bond is strained by Miriam's obsessive tendencies.

### [Mrs. Corrie](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/honeycomb_se/characters/mrs_corrie)

_social_

Eve is a social acquaintance of Mrs. Corrie, maintaining polite distance due to Mrs. Corrie's intimidating nature.

### [Miriam](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/honeycomb_se/characters/miriam)

_friendship_

Eve is Miriam's close friend and confidante, though their bond is strained by Miriam's obsessive tendencies.

### [Miriam](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/honeycomb_se/characters/miriam)

_friendship_

Eve is Miriam's close friend and confidante, though their bond is strained by Miriam's obsessive tendencies.

## In the story

### [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/honeycomb_se/chapters/i)

Mentioned as one of the children; Miriam observes her during dinner.

### [VIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/honeycomb_se/chapters/viii)

Recipient of Miriam's long letter about her new painting obsession; Miriam worries Eve will think she is mad.

### [Homecoming and Wedding Celebrations](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/honeycomb_se/chapters/x)

Enters with Japanese anemones and introduces a tall man to Miriam.

## Links

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