person
Yulia Vasilyevna
The governess of the narrator's children in "A Doormat"; she silently accepts a string of invented deductions against her wages until her employer, disgusted by her passivity, returns the full sum and rebukes her for never protesting.
Reading notes
- A Doormat §1 Yulia Vasilyevna
The governess of the narrator's children; the story's silent, put-upon protagonist, who never protests as her employer invents deduction after deduction against her wages.