Hay Fever Characters

Hay Fever | Characters

Myra Arundel
Well-dressed, confident, and sophisticated, Myra is invited to the Bliss house by her admirer Simon but coolly rebuffs his advances; her real motive in accepting the weekend invitation is to meet his novelist father, David. Before Myra even appears on stage, Simon’s mother, Judith, describes her as a ‘‘self-conscious vampire’’ who ‘‘goes about using Sex as a shrimping net.’’ So the audience is not surprised when Myra later begins a flirtatious conversation with David. Myra herself, however, is taken quite off-guard when David asks her directly,...

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