Stella

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Stella

Mentioned in Reunion in Death; Imitation in Death; Visions in Death; Salvation in Death

Contents 1 Personal Information 2 Description 3 Personality 4 History 5 Criminal Activity 6 Interesting Facts 7 References

Personal Information

• General Description: Eve and Stella have the same (whiskey-colored) eyes.^[1]
• Hair: Unknown
• Eyes: Brown
• Relationships: Richard Troy; Eve Dallas (daughter)
• Occupation: Prostitute

Description

• She wore perfume, cosmetics, and wigs: golden hair, so shiny and pretty, long and curly; or bright red hair.^[2]
• She had white hands with painted red nails^[3] and her brown eyes, painted gold on the lids, were full of hate.^[4]

Personality

• In Eve's dream/memory, when Stella caught Eve playing with her cosmetics, wigs, and shoes, Stella slapped her and called her a stupid little bitch.^[5]

History

• Stella said she never wanted Eve in the first place; she said having Eve was Rich's idea.^[6]
  • In Reunion in Death, Eve said, "He never called me by name. Because I didn't have one. I remember that now. They didn't bother to give me a name because I wasn't a child to them. I was a thing."^[7]

Criminal Activity

• A junkie-whore^[8] who whored for money and drugs. That was okay with Richard but, what wasn't okay with him, was that she wanted to ditch Eve and be rid of her. He said he had an investment in Eve.^[9]
  • Richard Troy was going to whore Eve out. Nothing like young pussy, he said, so Eve better learn to take it without the whining and crying. He had an investment in her, and she was going to pay off. They were going to start in Dallas, because Eve was eight and that was old enough to start carrying her weight.^[10]
• Three or four-year-old Eve knew her mother took 'medicine' (drugs) every day; sometimes more than once a day. Sometimes it made Stella sleepy, sometimes it made her want to dance and dance.^[11]
  • Stella was nicer when she wanted to dance - even though her laughing was scary, it was better than the yelling or the slapping.^[12]
• Stella and Rick tried to be careful of the soundproofing as they wanted to avoid any social workers.^[13]

Interesting Facts

• Eve has little memory of her mother^[14] though she knows that, by the time Eve was eight, Stella was gone.^[15]
• Eve wasn't allowed in the room where Rick and Stella slept; where Stella brought other men (for sex).^[16]
• Richard Troy called her 'Stel'; she called Richard 'Rich'.^[17]
• Stella hated Eve with a gut-deep hate;^[18] she hated the fact of Eve [existing]. Eve said that if Stella had been there when her father raped her, she didn't think Stella would have cared one way or the other.^[19]
• Stella was a junkie and a whore and Eve's father ran the show.^[20]

References

1. ↑ Imitation in Death (ISBN 0-425-19158-3), pp. 115, 116, 152
2. ↑ Imitation in Death (ISBN 0-425-19158-3), pp. 113, 114
3. ↑ Imitation in Death (ISBN 0-425-19158-3), p. 115
4. ↑ Imitation in Death (ISBN 0-425-19158-3), p. 116
5. ↑ Imitation in Death (ISBN 0-425-19158-3), p. 114
6. ↑ Imitation in Death (ISBN 0-425-19158-3), p. 115
7. ↑ Reunion in Death (ISBN 0-425-18397-1), p. 221
8. ↑ Imitation in Death (ISBN 0-425-19158-3), pp. 114, 116; Visions in Death (ISBN 0-425-20300-X), p. 251
9. ↑ Imitation in Death (ISBN 0-425-19158-3), p. 153
10. ↑ Reunion in Death (ISBN 0-425-18397-1), p. 221
11. ↑ Imitation in Death (ISBN 0-425-19158-3), pp. 114, 152
12. ↑ Imitation in Death (ISBN 0-425-19158-3), p. 114
13. ↑ Imitation in Death (ISBN 0-425-19158-3), p. 115
14. ↑ Imitation in Death (ISBN 0-425-19158-3), pp. 115, 116; Visions in Death (ISBN 0-425-20300-X), p. 250
15. ↑ Visions in Death (ISBN 0-425-20300-X), p. 251
16. ↑ Imitation in Death (ISBN 0-425-19158-3), p. 113
17. ↑ Imitation in Death (ISBN 0-425-19158-3), pp. 115, 116
18. ↑ Imitation in Death (ISBN 0-425-19158-3), p. 152
19. ↑ Salvation in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15522-2), p. 102
20. ↑ Kindred in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15595-6), p. 298