# Christiana — The Pilgrim’s Progress character guide

> Christiana in The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan.

**Role:** major

**Also known as:** Christiana, Sweet Christiana, good Christiana, one Christiana

**First appearance:** 0005-the-second-part

## Snapshot

The wife who once hardened her heart against her husband's tears now wakes to her own guilt and gathers her four boys to follow him down the same road.

## Who they are

For years Christiana stood on the safe side of the door, mocking the groans and entreaties of a husband she thought melancholy-mad. After he vanishes over the river, her unkindness returns to her like lightning, and a dream of her own recorded sins drives her to cry out for mercy. Her late, costly repentance turns the abandoned household into a second pilgrimage, and her sons' futures hang on whether she can lead them where their father went.

## In the story

### [The Author’s Way of Sending Forth His Second Part of the Pilgrim](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pilgrim_s_progress_se/chapters/the-author-s-way-of-sending-forth-his-second-part-of-the-pilgrim)

The central figure of the second part, introduced as the wife of Christian and a pilgrim with her four sons.

### [The Second Part](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pilgrim_s_progress_se/chapters/the-second-part)

The wife of Christian, now a pilgrim herself, leading her children and Mercy.

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