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Rachel

A governess or teacher at the Vedel household.

minor

Also known as Miss Rachel

First appearance: II: Edouard’s Journal: At the Vedels’

Rachel shows up with force in II: Edouard’s Journal: At the Vedels’. The page is where that presence becomes real.

Self-sacrificing daughter who manages the school accounts and borrows money from Edouard to pay creditors and a tutor.
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In II: Edouard’s Journal: At the Vedels’: Self-sacrificing daughter who manages the school accounts and borrows money from Edouard to pay creditors and a tutor. Later, in XIV: Bernard and the Angel: Confronts Bernard…

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Relationship types

  • Other

Character groups

  • Extended Family and Acquaintances
  • Passavant's Criminal Network
  • Vedel Pension Circle
  • Protagonist

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SetupEscalationAftermathClimax
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  • Escalation
  • Breaking point
  • Aftermath
  • Closing

In this chapter, Edouard articulates the "deep-lying subject" of his novel—the rivalry between reality and rep…

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