Harper Amaty Pitt
Harper Pitt is (Joe) Joseph Porter Pitt's wife. She is addicted to valium which causes her hallucinate. She suffers from agoraphobiaand creates an imaginary friend, Mr. Lies, to help her avoid bad situations. In one instance, Prior Walter and Harper cross over into one another's hallucinations. During this hallucination, she learns that her husband 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 an independent, confident woman newly in love with life and setting off to build her own life in San Francisco. According to Bloom, Kushner’s women are stronger than the men (with the exception of Roy Cohn), especially Harper (299).
