Short Fiction · Character
Vera Durmot
A young woman of vivid imagination whose storytelling instincts make her a natural — and unreliable — presence in any amateur production.
supporting
Also known as Vera
First appearance: the reticence of lady anne
As a supporting figure in Short Fiction, Vera Durmot is not background color—the story leans on what they do once the chapter opens.
The self-possessed fifteen-year-old niece who invents a ghost story to amuse herself at Framton's expense.
Vera belongs to the drawing-room set that turns a Greek play into a social battlefield, and her imaginative streak sets her apart from the more literal-minded company. Where others merely learn lines, she inhabits them, which makes her both an asset and a hazard to Clovis's staging. Her flair for narrative shapes how the household understands its own dramas, blurring the line between performance and life.
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Relationship types
- Other
Character groups
- Socially overwhelmed characters
- Diverse social dramas and oddities
- Protagonist
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See Vera Durmot in the reticence of lady anne