# Horace — My Brilliant Career character guide

> Horace in My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Horace, Horace⁠—heaven

**First appearance:** 0016-xi-yah

## Who they are

A young man who shows interest in Sybylla, possibly a suitor.

## In the story

### [IV: A Career Which Soon Careered to an End](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/my_brilliant_career_se/chapters/iv-a-career-which-soon-careered-to-an-end)

Sybylla's twin brother; milks cows alongside mother; described as a churlish bully with doubtful character due to lack of training.

### [XXX: Where Ignorance Is Bliss, ’Tis Folly to Be Wise](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/my_brilliant_career_se/chapters/xxx-where-ignorance-is-bliss-tis-folly-to-be-wise)

Sybylla's eldest brother, who writes a letter complaining about their father's drinking, the drought, and the drudgery of dairying, advising Sybylla to stop writing to their mother.

### [Back at Possum Gully](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/my_brilliant_career_se/chapters/xxxiii-back-at-possum-gully)

Complains to Sybylla about the drudgery of dairy farming and his desire to leave Possum Gully.

### [XXXIV: But Absent Friends Are Soon Forgot](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/my_brilliant_career_se/chapters/xxxiv-but-absent-friends-are-soon-forgot)

Leaves home to work with his uncle George Melvyn, causing Sybylla to feel his loss.

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