# Eleonora — Short Fiction character guide

> Eleonora in Short Fiction by Edgar Allan Poe.

**Role:** supporting

**First appearance:** 0036-eleonora

## Snapshot

A dying cousin in the Valley of the Many-Colored Grass, whose vow of spiritual return binds her lover long after the flowers fade.

## Who they are

Eleonora is a child of the enchanted valley, beloved by her cousin with a devotion so absolute that he swears before God never to betray her memory. When she dies, she promises to watch over him in spirit, sighing on the evening winds and filling the air with angelic perfume. Her vow becomes the measure against which every later love must be weighed, and the valley itself withers in her absence.

## Relationships

### [Unknown Narrator](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_14_se/characters/unknown_narrator)

_romantic_

Eleonora is the narrator's cousin and first love, with whom he shares an idyllic but doomed romance in a secluded valley.

### [Unknown Narrator](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_14_se/characters/unknown_narrator)

_romantic_

Eleonora is the narrator's cousin and first love, with whom he shares an idyllic but doomed romance in a secluded valley.

## In the story

### [Eleonora](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_14_se/chapters/eleonora)

The narrator's beloved cousin, a pure and innocent maiden who dies after extracting a vow of eternal fidelity from him.

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