To Room Nineteen | Characters
Mrs. Parkes
Mrs. Parkes, the Rawlings’s housekeeper, is “one of the servers of this world, but she needed someone to serve.” She does her job well, but cannot handle the responsibility of making any household decisions while Susan is away. She impedes Susan’s freedom until Sophie is hired.
Matthew Rawlings
When the story opens, Matthew Rawlings is in his forties, as is his wife Susan. He is a “sensible” man who seems to have made all of the right choices in life. He married in his late twenties and only after he had experienced other...
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