# Bessy Garrow — Short Fiction character guide

> Bessy Garrow in Short Fiction by Anthony Trollope.

**Role:** major

**Also known as:** Bessy, Now Bessy Garrow, poor Bessy, Miss Bessy

**First appearance:** 0021-malachi-s-cove

## Snapshot

A Cornish beauty who resolves to love without worshipping, and to hide her heart's fox beneath unbroken smiles.

## Who they are

Elizabeth Garrow is the quiet, fair-haired center of a Cornish love story, admired for her industry, self-denial, and religious purpose. Her flaw is a reverence for martyrdom: she guards herself so fiercely against loving too weakly that she wounds the man she loves and is told the fault is hers. Her hidden suffering and outward composure drive the early and middle arc, making her a heroine whose goodness is both her strength and her danger.

## In the story

### [The Mistletoe Bough](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_4_se/chapters/the-mistletoe-bough)

Struggles with her pride and fear of happiness, refusing Godfrey Holmes's proposal for the third time despite loving him.

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