1. Kitty Garstin/Fane: She is an Englishwoman, who comes from a very
proper family (upper class). Spoiled enough since she was kid, so her
mother put a great amount of pressure on her as the effect. She is so naïve
lacking sensitivity. It was about using her natural beauty to get a man from
high social status and excellence in his job. She is forced to marry a rich
and smart man. Although Kitty has natural beauty, but her romance life
doesn‟t go well as planned. She always finds any man she has ever dated
with didn‟t meet her standards. Apparently, she puts a higher standard in
almost everything, including finding the right man. This thing makes her
as a frivolous and a bit shallow woman. When she was twenty five, which
in the era this age made her desperately old; she decided to give up on
finding an ideal mate. She marries Walter Fane, government
bacteriologies. She decided to follow her husband to move to Hong Kong.
This character is considered as protagonist and a round character. She has
developed somehow into a better person. At the first time she loathed
Walter, Hong Kong and even Mei-tan-fu, but in the end she gradually
grew feelings towards the orphans in Mei-tan-fu, the nuns, and Walter. In
the end, she becomes a new woman, who is left by her husband, but it
doesn‟t make her to go back to Charlie. She decides to raise her own son,
instead, although she knows, Charlie is the biological father of her son.
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