Venus Envy Summary / Study Guide

Venus Envy | Characters

The main character of Venus Envy, Mary Frazier Armstrong, is a beautiful, successful thirty-five-year-old businesswoman with a well-kept secret. Although Frazier apparently fits in with her ritzy surroundings in the small but society obsessed town of Charlottesville, Virginia, she does so at the expense of her personal happiness and integrity, as she has been hiding her lesbianism from everyone save her closest friend, Billy Cicero, a rich, fast-living, gorgeous gay man who is also firmly in the closet, albeit a gold-plated one. Our first view of Frazier is in her hospital bed, where...

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