# Mrs. Blunt — The Arrow of Gold character guide

> Mrs. Blunt in The Arrow of Gold by Joseph Conrad.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** the aristocratic Mrs. Blunt, Madame Blunt

**First appearance:** 0003-the-arrow-of-gold

## Snapshot

The aristocratic Mrs. Blunt, Captain Blunt's mother, is a figure of formidable social standing whose quarrels and opinions carry weight in Parisian circles.

## Who they are

Madame Blunt moves through the highest social and commercial spheres — even curio-dealers like Bing feel her displeasure — and her name is invoked as a kind of social currency. Her quarrel with Bing over the Allègre collection reveals how deeply the affairs of the dead artist still agitate the living, and how the elder Mrs. Blunt is entangled in them. She matters because her presence shadows her son's choices and because the Allègre legacy she circles is the same fortune that has remade Doña Rita's life.

## In the story

### [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_arrow_of_gold_se/chapters/part-i-iii)

Mentioned as having written to Doña Rita, showing her aristocratic and royalist connections.

### [II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_arrow_of_gold_se/chapters/part-iv-ii)

The narrator's hostess; an aging beauty with a complex past, concerned about her son's future.

### [Chapter III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_arrow_of_gold_se/chapters/part-iv-iii)

Reveals her scheme for her son to marry Doña Rita, displaying aristocratic pragmatism and maternal ambition.

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