# Juliet — Short Fiction character guide

> Juliet in Short Fiction by Mary Shelley.

**Role:** supporting

**First appearance:** 0000-a-tale-of-the-passions

## Snapshot

A Genoese heiress affianced beside a deathbed, whose bridegroom returns from dissolute Paris a beggar in jewels, armed against the world with bravado and a Spanish jennet.

## Who they are

Juliet was promised to Guido at his father's deathbed, with Torella standing as a second parent, and she waits in Genoa while her betrothed squanders his inheritance in Paris. He sends her a matchless Spanish jennet whose caparisons flame with jewels and entwined initials, a gift that finds favour in her eyes and her father's. Her marriage is the step that will publicly declare his ruin, and the tension between her worth and his shame drives the early arc of the tale.

## In the story

### [Transformation](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_38_se/chapters/transformation)

Guido's betrothed, whose love and purity anchor his redemption.

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