Hilary -Week 6 - character profile

Name: Carrie Danby.
Carrie is the youngest daughter of Ellen Danby. She is 16 years old.  She has two sisters. Annie the eldest and Sadie the middle daughter.  Sadie is nineteen and Annie is twenty three. The girls are of Irish/Engish heritage. She lives with her Mother and her Mother's current partner in a large Edwardian house in the better part of Hull.  The house is in Newland Park and Ellen constantly tells visiting friends that it was the former home of  Phillip Larkin. In fact, Phillip Larkin lived in the house next door.
All three girls are very noticeable due to them all having the same beautiful dark blue eyes , and Carrie has a shock of auburn hair, long and curly. Unruly, like it's owner.
 She has a birthmark which covers one side of her lean, athletic body. The birthmark stops halfway up her neck and she consciously has her hair long and loose at all times.
"They used to call it a 'port wine stain' It's not a burn or anything, It was there when she was born." Her mother always brought it up when she was a small child. Even at the tender age of four, she could pick up the disgust in Ellen's voice as she felt the need to explain the dark purple skin on Carrie's body to anyone who came within a metre of them either at the beach or in the local pool.
Her dress is thrift shop chic. Her style, however, is her own. She is a non conformist in every aspect of her life. She uses humour to deflect any criticism which comes her way, and usually wins her arguments.
She is artistic and clever academically and has a devil may care attitude toward her own self preservation. People will say of her that she takes unnecessary risks with her own and others safety.
She is well liked at her school, especially by the boys with whom she appears to have a strong fascination, as do they with her.
She is quite independent and wants to travel the world after completing her A levels. Carrie is passionate about art. She has already travelled to Paris on her own, buying a ticket for the Eurostar with her mother's credit card.
She spent a week sleeping in various hostels with young travellers she had picked up and walked every day to the Louvre, drinking in the beauty in each room until she was giddy with it all. Finally, like an alcoholic just coming off a bender, she tottered back home. She seemed oblivious to the fuss and worry she had caused back in England.
Her sisters fear for their younger sibling and take responsibility for her welfare. Her mother has a difficult relationship with her youngest daughter. She is frustrated that she has no control over her and this comes out in a number of hurtful ways. Carrie has developed a thick skin to deflect her mothers taunts.
Carrie has had several boyfriends, none of whom has lasted due to her becoming bored with them. None have yet matched up to her high expectations. She is presently in a dangerous relationship with a teacher. She knows it is wrong, but he encourages it. She is excited by the danger. No one is aware, or so she believes.