Short Fiction · Character
Marcia Meadow
Marcia Meadow is a nine-o'clock-show actress whose brisk good humor and practical energy keep her scholarly husband Horace fed, exercised, and slightly bewildered.
supporting
Also known as Marcia, Meadow, Marvellous Marcia
First appearance: the camel s back
As a supporting figure in Short Fiction, Marcia Meadow is not background color—the story leans on what they do once the chapter opens.
Performs in 'Home James', shares her life story and career rise with Horace over supper.
Marcia runs the household economy while Horace lives among abstract ideas, and she trades him gymnasium sessions for her grudging doses of Pepys. Her pride in his mind is fierce and unembarrassed, even as she teases him about stooping over big books. When a fat stranger at the gym takes an interest in Horace's trapeze stunts, Marcia's steadying influence becomes the thing that may or may not hold him to earth.
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- Love and obsession
- Love and ambition
- Social climbers and romantics
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