Overview
Character Name
Lily Mortar
Show
Gender
Female
Playing Age
Mature Adult
Role Size
Lead
Time & Place
new england
Analysis
Lily Mortar is Martha’s aunt, who also serves as a teacher at the Wright-Dobie School. She is extremely vain and selfish. Hellman describes her as a “plump, florid woman of forty-five.” Long ago, Lily used to be a classical actress. Now she is aging ungracefully in Lancet,
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