# Marie — Poetry character guide

> Marie in Poetry by T. S. Eliot.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Goonight May

**First appearance:** 0033-i-the-burial-of-the-dead

## Who they are

A woman recalling childhood sledding and reading in The Waste Land's opening.

## Relationships

### [Unknown Narrator](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_21_se/characters/unknown_narrator)

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Marie is a nostalgic figure from the narrator's past, sharing memories of childhood adventures and lost aristocratic grandeur.

### [Goonight Lou](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_21_se/characters/goonight_lou)

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Goonight Lou and Marie are linked through the narrator's associative memory, contrasting aristocratic nostalgia with vulgar entertainment.

### [Unknown Narrator](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_21_se/characters/unknown_narrator)

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Marie is a nostalgic figure from the narrator's past, sharing memories of childhood adventures and lost aristocratic grandeur.

## In the story

### [The Waste Land](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_21_se/chapters/the-waste-land)

The speaker who recalls childhood sledding with her cousin and the freedom of the mountains, then reads much of the night and goes south in winter.

### [I: The Burial of the Dead](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_21_se/chapters/i-the-burial-of-the-dead)

Recalls a childhood memory of sledding with her cousin at the archduke's, and mentions reading at night and traveling south in winter.

### [II: A Game of Chess](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_21_se/chapters/ii-a-game-of-chess)

Marie is addressed as 'Goonight May' in the closing farewells of the pub scene.

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