# Lady Asterisk — Memoirs of an Infantry Officer character guide

> Lady Asterisk in Memoirs of an Infantry Officer by Siegfried Sassoon.

**Role:** minor

**First appearance:** 0000-i-at-the-army-school

## Who they are

A society figure, part of the narrator's home social circle.

## In the story

### [IX: Hospital and Convalescence](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/memoirs_of_an_infantry_officer_se/chapters/ix-hospital-and-convalescence)

Hosts the narrator at Nutwood Manor, offering comfort but also embodying the patrician detachment from the war's horrors, as seen in her spiritual rationalization of death.

### [II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/memoirs_of_an_infantry_officer_se/chapters/ii)

Hostess in Sussex where the narrator is sent to convalesce.

### [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/memoirs_of_an_infantry_officer_se/chapters/iii)

Hostess at Nutwood Manor, symbolizes the patrician class and its spiritual justification for the war.

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