Poetry · Character
Long Mary
Known as Long Moll, she strides through Bierce's satiric stage as a queen of temperance and lemonade, her visage austere and her gait a high parade.
supporting
Also known as Long Moll
First appearance: poetry
As a supporting figure in Poetry, Long Mary is not background color—the story leans on what they do once the chapter opens.
Recalled as taking a shine to the skull's owner and throwing over Jake the Kangaroo.
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Long Mary, or Long Moll, appears as a tree-walking queen whose eyes are fixed on the ground and whose every step plashes lemonade, a figure of imperious reform in a world of rum-soaked politicians. She swaps souls with…
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- Other
Character groups
- Diverse Allegorical and Named Figures
- Personifications and Named Characters
- Religious and Historical Figures
- Biblical and Named Figures
- Protagonist
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- Closing
The emotional and psychological peak occurs when the speaker’s obsessive pursuit of the divine rose fragrance…
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