Doctor Copeland’s deceased wife and the mother of Portia, Willie, Buddy, and Hamilton. Doctor Copeland often made Daisy the subject of his directionless rage against the injustices facing the black community, and Daisy eventually moved out of her husband’s house, taking her children with her to live on her father’s farm outside of town.
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Daisy Character Timeline in The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
The timeline below shows where the character Daisy appears in The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Part 1, Chapter 5
...move around the kitchen, he is struck by how much she looks like her mother, Daisy. Doctor Copeland thinks about his other children—Hamilton, Karl Marx, and William—and the high hopes he...
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Part 2, Chapter 3
...to a family reunion the next day, which will be attended mostly by family from her late mother ’s side. Copeland tells Portia to borrow anything she needs to cook supper for the...
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...in him—a madness which led him to be violent to his wife. As a result, Daisy took the children to live at her father’s. Eight years later, when she died, his...
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