The Hostage | Characters
Colette
Colette is a younger prostitute who works in the brothel. Early in the play she complains about taking a communist as a customer.
Meg Dillon
Meg, Pat’s spouse, is responsible for running the brothel. Pat claims to have found her on the street and taken her in. She shares his sardonic sense of humor and dislike of hypocrisy and is particularly critical of Miss Gilchrist’s pious twittering. Meg is a romantic Irish nationalist and something of a sentimentalist: she sighs for the Irish fighting spirit of by-gone years and...
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