# Miss Graham — Indian Summer character guide

> Miss Graham in Indian Summer by William Dean Howells.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** IV Miss Graham

**First appearance:** 0000-i

## Snapshot

A radiant young American abroad whose easy charm and frank delight in Colville's droll talk make her the warm center of every Florentine gathering she enters.

## Who they are

Miss Graham moves through the salon as a youthful beauty whose generous amplitude of womanhood and charmingly irregular smile disarm Colville the moment he stops seeing her as a distant goddess. She is guileless and eager, laughing at his epigrams with an innocent nervousness that pulls both him and little Effie Bowen toward her, and her habit of taking people at their best makes her a natural foil to the more calculating currents of the expatriate set. Her openness matters because it draws Colville out of his weary detachment and quietly sets the emotional weather of the novel's early social scenes.

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