Clarisse
Speech parts
1. Clarisse - Noun
2. Clarisse - Proper noun
Meaning
Clarisse
A female given name from French
Clarisse (plural Clarisses)
(Catholicism) Synonym of Poor Clare: a nun of the Order of Saint Clare, sometimes particularly such a nun who followed the original rules of Saint Clare of Assisi.
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Back when I was on my first assignment as a seeker, I was way out in Arizona. Brought in this kid named Clarisse.” "Clarisse?” "Sibling of yours,” Hedge said. "Ares kid. Violent. Rude. Lots of potential.
But... you're still getting married?" Grover sounded hurt. "Who's the bride?" Ploypemus looked toward the boiling pot. Clarisse made a strangled sound. "Oh, no! You can't be serious. I'm not.
A few days after their first meeting, she disappears without any explanation; Mildred tells Montag (and Captain Beatty confirms) that Clarisse was hit by a speeding car and that her family left following her death.
Clarisse tells Montag she is "seventeen and crazy", later admitting that she will actually be seventeen "next month".
In Virginia Woolf's response novel Mrs Dalloway the comparable character is Clarisse Dalloway, who also appears in The Voyage Out and several short stories.
In the afterword of a later edition, Bradbury notes that the film adaptation changed the ending so that Clarisse (who, in the film, is now a 20-year-old school teacher who was fired for being unorthodox) was living with the exiles.