Clarice

In SILENCE, the protagonist, Clarice is up against huge odds.

May 2008 2008

In SILENCE, the protagonist, Clarice is up against huge odds.

Creating suspense 2008

At Baptism she received the name Clarice and in early youth was remarkable for piety, but, as she grew older, she became frivolous, and showed a worldly disposition, which not even the almost miraculous saving of her life at the age of seventeen could change; neither was her frivolity checked by her education at the Convent of St. Bernardine at Viterbo, where an older sister had taken the veil.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

Clarice could die, too – in fact, throughout the story, we are always at least subconsciously aware that Clarice is disquietingly similar to Buffalo Bill’s previous victims: she is young, white, Southern, from a struggling family.

May 2008 2008

Clarice could die, too – in fact, throughout the story, we are always at least subconsciously aware that Clarice is disquietingly similar to Buffalo Bill’s previous victims: she is young, white, Southern, from a struggling family.

Creating suspense 2008

I open my phone and call Clarice, anxious to talk about her plan to get my notebook back.

One Night That Changes Everything Lauren Barnholdt 2010

I open my phone and call Clarice, anxious to talk about her plan to get my notebook back.

One Night That Changes Everything Lauren Barnholdt 2010

I open my phone and call Clarice, anxious to talk about her plan to get my notebook back.

One Night That Changes Everything Lauren Barnholdt 2010

I open my phone and call Clarice, anxious to talk about her plan to get my notebook back.

One Night That Changes Everything Lauren Barnholdt 2010

A more experienced agent-one who wasn't a bookish young woman with an accounting degree whose colleagues called her Clarice behind her back-would have been less concerned about the scorn she would suffer if she pulled a fellow agent-or two, or three-away from important work to search the back of an adjacent building because she thought that maybe she had seen a child's hand in the bottom of a window.

The Best Revenge White, Stephen, 1951- 2003