# Annette Brougham — Short Fiction character guide

> Annette Brougham in Short Fiction by P. G. Wodehouse.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Annette

**First appearance:** 0000-when-papa-swore-in-hindustani

## Snapshot

A young composer in a Chelsea studio whose waltz-writing is interrupted by a boot-heel pounding on the floor above, prompting her to march upstairs and confront the brute.

## Who they are

Annette lives below an unseen neighbor whose knocking she first endures, then resents as a physical pain and finally an insult, until she storms up the stairs to give him a piece of her mind. The man behind the door turns out to have a pleasant voice and a pleasing exterior, which complicates her righteous fury considerably. Her pride, her music, and her refusal to be intimidated make her the spark of the story's battle-of-the-sexes opening.

## In the story

### [The Man Upstairs](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_42_se/chapters/the-man-upstairs)

Confronts Beverley about his deception, defends him against Sellers, and struggles with her feelings of humiliation and growing regard for him.

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