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Harper Pitt is Joseph (Joe) Pitt's wife. She is addicted to [http://www.rocheusa.com/products/valium/ valium] which frequently makes her hallucinate. She has  [http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/definition/english/Ag/Agoraphobia.html agoraphobia], and creates an imaginary friend to avoid bad situations. Prior and Harper cross over into one another's dreams, representing gay culture on one hand and Salt Lake City Mormonism on the other (Meisner 181). 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).