The Beautiful and Damned · Character
Muriel Kane
Gloria's vivacious friend Muriel Kane arrives with the latest catchphrase and stays for the confidences, bearing witness to the Patch marriage as it curdles.
supporting
Also known as Muriel, Muriel Kane, Kane, the martial Muriel, Miss Kane, surely Miss Kane
First appearance: II: Portrait of a Siren
As a supporting figure in The Beautiful and Damned, Muriel Kane is not background color—the story leans on what they do once the chapter opens.
A friend of Gloria, part of the social set, and a witness to the developing relationship between Anthony and Gloria.
Muriel moves through the Patches' apartment with obliging levity, greeting strangers as Fred and trading gossip about who is in her prime. When Anthony storms out drunk and Gloria sits composed in the lamplight, Muriel is the one who cries, asks whether this has happened much, and hears the answer that they just go on. Her sincere distress and her inability to stay, since she has a man and it is already seven-thirty, frame Gloria's isolation in a new dress bought imprudently for fifty dollars.
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Character Web
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Relationship types
- Social
- Friendship
- Other
Character groups
- Primary social circle
- Minor acquaintances and background figures
- Protagonist
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Story tension across the book — this chapter sits in Exposition.
- Setup
- Breaking point
- Aftermath
- Closing
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- Anthony Patch
social · positive
Muriel Kane is a socialite friend of Gloria's and an acquaintance of Anthony, often… How this plays out →
- Gloria Gilbert
friendship · positive
- Anthony Patch
social · positive
Muriel Kane is a socialite friend of Gloria's and an acquaintance of Anthony, often… How this plays out →
- Gloria Gilbert
friendship · positive
- Anthony Patch
social · positive
Muriel Kane is a socialite friend of Gloria's and an acquaintance of Anthony, often… How this plays out →
- Gloria Gilbert
friendship · positive
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See Muriel Kane in II: Portrait of a SirenIn the story
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See Muriel Kane in II: Portrait of a Siren