# Beatrice Gilray — Point Counter Point character guide

> Beatrice Gilray in Point Counter Point by Aldous Huxley.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Beatrice

**First appearance:** 0007-viii

## Snapshot

A young woman drawn into the orbit of Walter and later Spandrell, whose presence threads the novel's tangled web of desire and disillusion.

## Who they are

Beatrice moves through the novel's social circles as an object of shifting attentions, becoming involved first with Walter and then with Spandrell, whose cadaverous charm and cynical philosophy she must reckon with. Her youth and availability place her at the intersection of the book's competing appetites, and her trajectory from one man to another mirrors the restless dissatisfaction that drives so many of Huxley's characters. She matters as a test of what the novel's men actually want when they reach for a woman, and of what she herself is permitted to want in return.

## Relationships

### [Dennis Burlap](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/point_counter_point_se/characters/dennis_burlap)

_professional_

Beatrice is Dennis's secretary and devoted admirer, whom he exploits emotionally while maintaining a professional facade.

### [Dennis Burlap](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/point_counter_point_se/characters/dennis_burlap)

_professional_

Beatrice is Dennis's secretary and devoted admirer, whom he exploits emotionally while maintaining a professional facade.

### [Dennis Burlap](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/point_counter_point_se/characters/dennis_burlap)

_professional_

Beatrice is Dennis's secretary and devoted admirer, whom he exploits emotionally while maintaining a professional facade.

## In the story

### [XVI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/point_counter_point_se/chapters/xvi)

Brings in supper and advises Burlap on gramophone shares.

### [Chapter XVIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/point_counter_point_se/chapters/xviii)

Expresses her tenderness for Burlap through sharp, commanding solicitude; rubs his chest with camphorated oil, overcoming her own horror.

### [XXXIV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/point_counter_point_se/chapters/xxxiv)

Indignant at Rampion's views, but drawn into Burlap's intimate manipulation, feeling protective and motherly.

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