# Ivy — The End of the Tether character guide

> Ivy in The End of the Tether by Joseph Conrad.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Captain Whalley's daughter

**First appearance:** 0000-i

## Snapshot

Captain Whalley's daughter in Melbourne, who understands her father without many words and whose failing household keeps him at sea.

## Who they are

Ivy resembles her mother in eyes and character, and when her father told her all he had was for her and the chicks, she answered with an almost imperceptible movement of her head. Her husband's punctuality in failure and his invalid's bath-chair turn Whalley's old age into a long, uncomplaining sacrifice. She never appears on the Sofala, yet every dollar of the captain's wage is spent on her, and that is the whole weight he carries.

## Relationships

### [Captain Whalley](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_end_of_the_tether_se/characters/captain_whalley)

_family_

Ivy is Whalley's beloved daughter, and his entire sacrifice and struggle are motivated by his love and desire to provide for her.

### [Captain Whalley](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_end_of_the_tether_se/characters/captain_whalley)

_family_

Ivy is Whalley's beloved daughter, and his entire sacrifice and struggle are motivated by his love and desire to provide for her.

## In the story

### [II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_end_of_the_tether_se/chapters/ii)

Whalley's daughter, married and living in Melbourne, who writes to her father asking for money to start a boardinghouse.

### [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_end_of_the_tether_se/chapters/iii)

Captain Whalley's daughter; runs a boardinghouse in Melbourne, which he finds socially degrading.

### [IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_end_of_the_tether_se/chapters/iv)

Whalley's daughter, for whose benefit he intends to use his savings, though she is not physically present in this chapter.

### [XII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_end_of_the_tether_se/chapters/xii)

Captain Whalley's daughter, mentioned as the reason his life is necessary and whom he hopes to see again before dying.

### [XIV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_end_of_the_tether_se/chapters/xiv)

Captain Whalley's daughter, who receives the news of her father's death and reads his final letter, learning of his blindness and sacrifice.

## Links

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