# Anne — Short Fiction character guide

> Anne in Short Fiction by Walter M. Miller Jr..

**Role:** supporting

**First appearance:** 0000-conditionally-human

## Snapshot

Norris's wife, dull-voiced and depressed, she opens the pound for Doctor Georges and watches her husband come home scratched and grim from the Delmont case.

## Who they are

Anne is the quiet domestic anchor of the neutroid roundup, the woman who answers the door and notices the welts on her husband's cheek before he will explain them. Her flat, joyless tone and her unreturned smile suggest a marriage worn thin by the work Norris does. She matters because her weariness measures the cost of the hunt long before the hunt itself is finished.

## In the story

### [Conditionally Human](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_57_se/chapters/conditionally-human)

Norris's wife, who is deeply upset by his role in destroying neutroids and shows cold contempt.

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