Protagonist Name and Background

first name:
Xara

Surname:
Morris

The protagonist, Xara Morris, is in her early twenties and lives in an important city in England. She was working in administration in an office, the only job she could get when she left University. She has a history degree and wanted to go into a career of research. Xara is from a lower class background, her mother’s parents were immigrants who came over during the Second World War, and settled in the country with very little money and her father’s parents were from a mining background in Wales. So she had very little money, but managed to get into Cambridge due to her being a high grade student. At the University she met a group of people who are all from very privileged backgrounds and thus have a lot of money, and live with high expectations of how other people should be, especially those they associate with. In order to fit in, Xara dressed in particular clothing, similar to that of her friends. However the lack of money means she lives in a small flat in the city and has no money to be able to afford a car, so commutes to work via the bus. She lives a monotonous life with the same things happening at the same time every day, so when she is fired it comes as a complete shock to her and she has to come to terms with the change in her schedule. This, in turn, leads to her becoming slovenly as she does not know how to cope with the stark change and difference.