Short Fiction · Character
Jane
A housemaid whose young man is stolen by a milliner, and who attends the wedding with a bag of left-off boots and a plan of her own.
supporting
First appearance: The Jilting of Jane
As a supporting figure in Short Fiction, Jane is not background color—the story leans on what they do once the chapter opens.
The narrator's maid, who is jilted by her fiancé William after a three-year engagement.
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Jane works in the narrator's household, scrubbing steps with a certain viciousness after William is lured away by an older woman with hair not gold to the roots. She accosts the wedding party in the street, is bundled…
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Relationship types
- Family
- Other
Character groups
- Jilted and obliterated
- Protagonist
- Strange cures and obsessions
- Miracles and misunderstandings
- Fantastical experiments and doors
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Story tension across the book — this chapter sits in Exposition.
- Setup
- Escalation
- Breaking point
- Aftermath
- Closing
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- William
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Jane and William are likely siblings or close relatives, sharing a domestic life and… How this plays out →
- William
family · positive
Jane and William are likely siblings or close relatives, sharing a domestic life and… How this plays out →
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