# Mrs. Tarleton — Misalliance character guide

> Mrs. Tarleton in Misalliance by George Bernard Shaw.

**Role:** major

**Also known as:** Mrs. Tarleton John, Mrs. Tarleton Everybody, Mrs. Tarleton Poor lad, Mrs. Tarleton Oh Bunny, Mrs. Tarleton Bunny, Mrs. Tarleton Not, Mrs. Tarleton Shocked, Mrs. Tarleton Hypatia

**First appearance:** 0000-misalliance

## Snapshot

Tarleton's wife, a practical and warm-hearted woman who manages the household's emotional weather while her husband and children argue theory.

## Who they are

Mrs. Tarleton moves through the weekend with a mother's eye on everyone's comfort and a realist's awareness of what marriage actually requires. She is kind to Bentley even as she doubts the match, and her interventions tend to be quiet corrections rather than speeches. She matters because she embodies the domestic common sense against which the play's more extravagant positions are measured.

## Relationships

### [Unknown Narrator](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/misalliance_se/characters/unknown_narrator)

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Mrs. Tarleton is the matriarch, whose domestic concerns and sharp observations are captured by the narrator.

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