Doris Pearson

Doris is the Pearsons' daughter, a pretty girl in her early twenties who would be pleasant enough had she not been spoilt. She sweeps in expecting her mother to iron her yellow silk dress for her evening out with Charlie Spence, and is astonished — and quickly reduced to tears — when "Mum" refuses and even mocks her boyfriend as having "buck teeth" and being "half-witted." She is self-centred and used to being served, but she is not hard-hearted; her shock and confusion at her mother's transformation show she has simply never thought ab …