The Verge | Characters

Adelaide
Adelaide is Claire’s sister who has been raising Elizabeth, Claire’s daughter from her first marriage. She also has five children of her own. She is a proper Victorian woman who constantly chastises Claire for not taking on her responsibilities as dutiful wife and mother. She calls Claire ‘‘unnatural’’ and is appalled that she does not exhibit a traditional mother’s love for her daughter. Adelaide is per fectly happy with the role society has dictated for her. As she notes in the second act, ‘‘I go about in the world—free, busy, happy. Among...

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