Passion Characters

There Must Be More Than This Provincial Life Grace is a lot like Belle from Disney's Beauty and the Beast. She's curious, independent, and she wants so much more than this poor provincial life....

Mommy Dearest Mrs. Travers seems an awful lot like Grace. Or maybe Grace is an awful lot like Mrs. Travers. Or maybe they're the same person, and "Passion" is secretly a science fiction story abou...

Bad Boy, Good Lips "Neil is—he's deep," says Mrs. Travers. "Deep unfathomable caves of ocean bear" (72). First of all, what exactly is meant by "deep unfathomable caves of ocean bear"? The world...

Nice Guys Finish Last Poor Maury. On top of sharing a name with the trashy talk show everyone loves to hate, he gets the cold shoulder from the girl he's dating, and loses his older brother in a...

When Mrs. Travers says Maury has a sterling character, that he will be a "dear uncomplicated man," it's all to say that he will be like Mr. Travers. It isn't until the end of the story that we...

Grace's aunt and uncle are, by all accounts, very kind people. They raised Grace after her parents died, and she basically considers them to be her parents. But what do you make of the way Grace tr...

Mavis is described as "handsome, but with little pouches of boredom or disapproval hiding the corners of her mouth" (40). She gets upset during family game night and leaves the room "with a bitter...