Mrs. Everdeen

Also known as Dr. Everdeen

Supporting
First seen · Book 1

Mrs. Everdeen is a supporting character in The Hunger Games, first appearing in The Hunger Games (Book 1).

Gender: female
Age: middle-aged
First appears: Book 1
Books: 1

Description

Light-haired woman with blue eyes and a lovely, raindrop-fresh face. Wears a fine dress from her apothecary days. Appears younger and less beaten-down in sleep but otherwise worn from grief, often sitting propped or huddled with distant gaze.

Connections

Family & partnersFriends & mentorsRivals

Katniss Everdeendaughter
Katniss’s relationship with her mother is strained by Mrs. Everdeen’s withdrawal after her husband’s death and the neglect Katniss and Prim endured. Katniss still loves and worries about her.
Primrose Everdeenmother
Mrs. Everdeen is Prim’s mother and helps care for her family; Katniss recalls the two of them treating the injured goat together.
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Katniss's fatherhusband
Katniss's father met her mother through her apothecary shop and married her; she loved him enough to leave her merchant-class home for the Seam.
Gale Hawthornefamily friend
Gale has a pact with Katniss to bring her family game and will supply Mrs. Everdeen with herbs she does not grow herself.
Peeta MellarkProfessional
Peeta's father trades bread with Prim for her cheese, and Katniss notes the family waits until the baker's wife is absent because the baker is kinder.