# Mr. Staple-Craven — Honeycomb character guide

> Mr. Staple-Craven in Honeycomb by Dorothy M. Richardson.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Mr. Craven, Craven

**First appearance:** 0000-i

## Snapshot

A gentleman with a loudly talking, busily eating face and a brooding grieving brow above it, whose presence at the billiard table frames Miriam's quiet communion.

## Who they are

Mr. Staple-Craven moves through the Corrie social world — dinners, billiards, the green-shaded lamps — a man whose unconscious brow contradicts his noisy surface. His wife's silent, mouthing resentment shadows him, and his own easy absorption in the game and the talk makes him both a figure of the world Miriam must navigate and a foil to her private joy in the ceremony of billiards. He is the social order made flesh: talking, eating, competing, unaware of the girl who leans along the board and keeps punctual appointment with her own hidden life.

## Relationships

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

_professional_

Mr. Staple-Craven is a colleague or business associate of Mrs. Corrie, with a formal and somewhat adversarial dynamic.

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

_rivalry_

Miriam and Mr. Staple-Craven are antagonists, clashing over influence and control in their shared social sphere.

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

_rivalry_

Miriam and Mr. Staple-Craven are antagonists, clashing over influence and control in their shared social sphere.

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

_professional_

Mr. Staple-Craven is a colleague or business associate of Mrs. Corrie, with a formal and somewhat adversarial dynamic.

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

_professional_

Mr. Staple-Craven is a colleague or business associate of Mrs. Corrie, with a formal and somewhat adversarial dynamic.

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

_rivalry_

Miriam and Mr. Staple-Craven are antagonists, clashing over influence and control in their shared social sphere.

## In the story

### [IX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/honeycomb_se/chapters/ix)

Participates in the dinner conversation about the accident, making a joke about lawyers confronting the truth.

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