# Short Fiction — Character guide

> Key figures in Short Fiction by Daphne du Maurier.

- [Narrator (First Person)](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_12_se/characters/narrator_1.md): He drifts through lunches and taxis narrating his own life as though scripting a play, imagining his lover planting violets on his grave one moment and buying an azalea as 'the symbol of my love' the next. His vanity and
- [Narrator (Second Person)](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_12_se/characters/narrator_2.md): This narrator addresses you as a companion in the story, whether recalling a girl weeping under rain outside the Empire or pressing you to admit what you would have done. The intimacy is disarming, and it makes you compl
- [The Woman](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_12_se/characters/the_woman.md): She surfaces in Wardour Street on a rainy night, a girl whose one word — 'romance' — lodges in the narrator's mind for months and refuses to leave. She is glimpsed rather than known, her hat low, her face turned away, an
- [Nurse](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_12_se/characters/nurse.md): She sits pretending to do sums while he rocks on his heels and says the things he knows will cut her, and she wonders, calmly, why she loves him at all. Her armour is a sheet of coldness, but a tear still falls on the bl
- [Bridget](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_12_se/characters/bridget.md): Bridget wakes to a noise she cannot reason about, and the bedroom she knows by day has rearranged itself into something sinister: a cold white arm with no body, a wardrobe taller than the ceiling. She lies frozen, certai
- [Blonde Heroine](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_12_se/characters/blonde_heroine.md): A stereotypical blonde heroine appearing in a story-within-a-story or parody.
- [Kate](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_12_se/characters/kate.md): Kate makes a life out of a bungalow facing the sea and a garden she tends, but the petty club life and her husband's restlessness wear the marriage thin until she begins to make scenes of jealousy over nothing. When she 
- [Nanny](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_12_se/characters/nanny_nan.md): An older caretaker or nanny figure in one of the stories.
- [Darling](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_12_se/characters/darling.md): A character referred to as Darling, possibly a nickname or term of endearment.
- [Monkton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_12_se/characters/monkton.md): A named male character with five mentions, likely a minor role.
- [Mrs. John Pearce](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_12_se/characters/mrs_john_pearce.md): A married woman mentioned briefly, possibly a background character.

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