# Mrs. Arabella Fuller — The Walls of Jericho character guide

> Mrs. Arabella Fuller in The Walls of Jericho by Rudolph Fisher.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Mrs. Fuller, Fuller, Arabella Fuller

**First appearance:** 0002-the-walls-of-jericho

## Snapshot

A woman of the community whose presence and judgments shape the social terrain the younger characters must navigate.

## Who they are

Mrs. Fuller occupies a place in the novel's social world where respectability and gossip carry real weight, and her opinions about who is behaving well and who is not ripple outward. She represents the pressure of communal watching—the sense that private choices become public property—which complicates the freedom of characters like Linda and Patmore to act on what they feel. Her role in the early and middle arc is to embody the standards against which the central figures measure themselves, whether they obey or defy them.

## In the story

### [XV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_walls_of_jericho_se/chapters/xv)

Fred Merrit's housekeeper, offers Linda a job, and shares gossip about Miss Cramp's prejudice.

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