Crimes of the Heart Show Characters

Lenny (Dodie Domino) is the oldest of the three Magrath sisters. She has devoted herself to caring for their sick grandfather, who is constantly in and out of the hospital. Unlike her younger siblings, Lenny still lives in their childhood home.

Relationships with other characters: Lenny dearly loves both her sisters. But she can be jealous of Meg, who always got all the attention when they were growing up. She is close to her cousin, Chick, although the latter bosses her around.

Lenny has had a romance with Charlie, a man in Memphis she had met through a club, "Lonely Hearts of the South". Later, as Babe confides to Meg, the relationship was broken off, and Lenny hasn't mentioned him since. It's possible (although the script never mentions it) that back in high school, she had feelings for Doc Porter.

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Quotes: "You wouldn't shoot a person 'cause you didn't like their looks! You wouldn't do that! Oh, I hate to say this -- I do hate to say this -- but I believe Babe is ill. I mean in-her-head ill."

"All this responsibility keeps falling on my shoulders, and I try to do what's right!"

"Babe, she sat here this very afternoon and told me how all she's done this whole year is work as a clerk for a dog food company."

"I chased Chick the Stick right up the mimosa tree. I did! I left her right there screaming in the tree!"

"...it wasn't forever; it wasn't for every minute. Just this one moment and we were all laughing."

Notes: "Lenny's crime is more of a crime to herself in that she won't tell the truth to the man she is in love with because she is afraid if he knows the truth he won't love her so she just chucks the whole thing...Lenny hasn't revealed to [her sisters] her great wish not to be alone." (Beth Henley, from The Playwright's Art, edited by Jackson R. Bryer, Rutgers University Press, 1995.)

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