# Baby — In the Midst of Life character guide

> Baby in In the Midst of Life by Ambrose Bierce.

**Role:** minor

**First appearance:** 0064-the-boarded-window

## Who they are

An infant whose fate is tied to a tragic story.

## In the story

### [Chickamauga](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/in_the_midst_of_life_se/chapters/chickamauga)

The unnamed six-year-old deaf-mute boy who wanders into the forest and encounters the horrors of war.

### [A Room May Be Too Narrow for Three, Though One Is Outside](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/in_the_midst_of_life_se/chapters/ii-a-room-may-be-too-narrow-for-three-though-one-is-outside)

The infant child of Charles and Irene Marlowe, pressed to death in her mother's protective embrace.

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