# Rummy Mitchens — Major Barbara character guide

> Rummy Mitchens in Major Barbara by George Bernard Shaw.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Rummy, The Woman Rummy Mitchens

**First appearance:** 0011-act-ii

## Snapshot

A weathered, hungry old woman who drifts into the Salvation Army shelter, trading pious hallelujahs for a bowl of soup and a warm bench.

## Who they are

Rummy belongs to the destitute crowd that Barbara Undershaft's shelter exists to save, and she knows the charity game well enough to play along with its hymns and testimonies. Her weary, sardonic gratitude exposes the gap between the Army's spiritual ambitions and the plain bodily needs of the poor it shelters. She matters because her presence forces the play's early argument about whether saving souls can ever be separated from feeding bodies.

## Relationships

### [Snobby Price](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/major_barbara_se/characters/snobby_price)

_social_

Rummy Mitchens and Snobby Price are fellow paupers at the Salvation Army shelter, engaging in petty deceptions and mutual manipulation to get charity.

### [Jenny Hill](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/major_barbara_se/characters/jenny_hill)

_professional_

Jenny Hill ministers to Rummy Mitchens as a Salvation Army worker, offering spiritual comfort to the poor, elderly woman.

### [Bill Walker](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/major_barbara_se/characters/bill_walker)

_rivalry_

Bill Walker bullies and threatens Rummy Mitchens, treating her with contempt as part of his aggressive behavior toward the shelter's inhabitants.

### [Snobby Price](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/major_barbara_se/characters/snobby_price)

_social_

Rummy Mitchens and Snobby Price are fellow paupers at the Salvation Army shelter, engaging in petty deceptions and mutual manipulation to get charity.

### [Jenny Hill](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/major_barbara_se/characters/jenny_hill)

_professional_

Jenny Hill ministers to Rummy Mitchens as a Salvation Army worker, offering spiritual comfort to the poor, elderly woman.

### [Bill Walker](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/major_barbara_se/characters/bill_walker)

_rivalry_

Bill Walker bullies and threatens Rummy Mitchens, treating her with contempt as part of his aggressive behavior toward the shelter's inhabitants.

### [Snobby Price](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/major_barbara_se/characters/snobby_price)

_social_

Rummy Mitchens and Snobby Price are fellow paupers at the Salvation Army shelter, engaging in petty deceptions and mutual manipulation to get charity.

### [Jenny Hill](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/major_barbara_se/characters/jenny_hill)

_professional_

Jenny Hill ministers to Rummy Mitchens as a Salvation Army worker, offering spiritual comfort to the poor, elderly woman.

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