# Mrs. Frank Cowperwood — The Financier character guide

> Mrs. Frank Cowperwood in The Financier by Theodore Dreiser.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Mrs. Cowperwood, Frank Cowperwood

**First appearance:** 0055-lvi

## Snapshot

Aileen Butler becomes Mrs. Frank Cowperwood only after scandal and prison have stripped her husband of everything Philadelphia once gave him.

## Who they are

She is the proud, passionate daughter of a powerful contractor who risks her social standing for a man her father helped destroy. Her marriage to Frank is both a defiant victory and a slow reckoning with the price of loving someone whose ambition never pauses. In the novel's middle arc, her loyalty and restlessness test whether Cowperwood's private life can survive the ruin of his public one.

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