Harper Amaty Pitt

Harper Pitt is Joseph (Joe) Pitt's wife. She is addicted to valium which frequently makes her hallucinate. She has agoraphobia, and creates an imaginary friend to avoid bad situations. Prior and Harper cross over into one another's hallucination. During this hallucination, she learns that her husband (Joe) is a homosexual. Harper appearing as a sexually frustrated and politically detached female, learns to manage these weaknesses she has and reshapes her life by leaving Joe and moving away from New York (Meisner 178). Though she appears as a weak character in the beginning of the play, she ends the play as a changed person. According to Bloom, Kushner’s women are stronger than the men (with the exception of Roy Cohn), especially Harper (299).