# Cousin Drusilla — Moving the Mountain character guide

> Cousin Drusilla in Moving the Mountain by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Drusilla, little sunny-haired Drusilla

**First appearance:** 0001-moving-the-mountain

## Snapshot

Sunny-haired Cousin Drusilla is the bright, uncomplicated young relative whose easy cheerfulness belongs entirely to the new world John must learn to inhabit.

## Who they are

Drusilla moves through the family scenes as one of the flock of young cousins who have replaced John's vanished generation, her nickname alone signaling warmth and light. Where John stumbles over reversed ideals and strange new feelings, she embodies the untroubled confidence of people raised inside the transformed society. Her unforced happiness quietly measures the distance between the brother who slept thirty years and the world that kept living without him.

## Relationships

### [Uncle Jake](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/moving_the_mountain_se/characters/uncle_jake)

_family_

Cousin Drusilla and Uncle Jake are family members, likely with a dynamic of respect and occasional tension.

### [Aunt Dorcas](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/moving_the_mountain_se/characters/aunt_dorcas)

_family_

Aunt Dorcas and Cousin Drusilla are relatives, with a dynamic of care and occasional friction.

### [Uncle Jake](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/moving_the_mountain_se/characters/uncle_jake)

_family_

Cousin Drusilla and Uncle Jake are family members, likely with a dynamic of respect and occasional tension.

## In the story

### [Chapter IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/moving_the_mountain_se/chapters/iv)

Eagerly tells the story of the Home Service Company, the first professional food service for women, and uses figures to demonstrate its efficiency.

### [XII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/moving_the_mountain_se/chapters/xii)

Now a frail, weak, elderly woman, she welcomes John with a smile and a thin work-worn hand.

## Links

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