“The Horse Dealer’s Daughter”

Sister (Mabel)

·        Short, sullen, 27 year old

·        Face impassively fixed kept her from being pretty

·        Sullen

·        Felt a sense of pride due to the family’s wealth

·        Loved her mother who died when she was fourteen

·        Cared for her family and home

·        Used denial to handle poverty

Joe

·        Eldest sibling, 33 year old

·        Shallow, restless eyes; black moustache

·        Engaged to be married

·        He was a person to be controlled

Jack Ferguson

·        Young doctor

·        Medium build, pale, long face with tired eyes

·        Contact with his rough patients excited him

·        Spell bound by Mabel cleaning her mother’s grave

·        Saved Mabel from drowning and fell in love

Joseph Pervin

·        Father

·        Uneducated, successful horse dealer

·        Died and left the family in debt with servants and horses gone

Fred Henry

·        Second eldest sibling

·        Erect, alert, “clean-limbed”

·        Brown moustache

·        Personality of a leader

Malcolm

·        Youngest sibling, 22 year old

·        Perky, not excessively smart

·        Few details given