# Hypatia Tarleton — Misalliance character guide

> Hypatia Tarleton in Misalliance by George Bernard Shaw.

**Role:** major

**Also known as:** Hypatia, Hypatia Angrily, Hypatia Thoughtful, Hypatia Startled, Hypatia Ben, Hypatia Nothing, Hypatia Impatiently, Hypatia Papa, Hypatia Rising, Hypatia Mr. Percival, Miss Tarleton, Miss Hypatia Tarleton, Miss Tarleton⁠

**First appearance:** 0000-misalliance

## Snapshot

Tarleton's daughter, bored by comfort and hungry for experience, treats marriage as a cage and adventure as the only cure.

## Who they are

Hypatia has grown up in a house of glass pavilions and casual wealth, and she finds it suffocating; she wants something real, even if it means scandal. Engaged to the nervous Bentley Summerhays, she is drawn instead to anyone who seems to have actually lived—aviators, acrobats, intruders with guns. Her restless dissatisfaction drives the play's central question: what does a modern woman do when she has everything except a life of her own?

## In the story

### [Misalliance](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/misalliance_se/chapters/misalliance)

Central figure in the romantic tensions.

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