Rosemary Penderghast

Rosemary Penderghast is the wife of Dill Penderghast, the mother of Olive Penderghast and her older brother who is only mentioned, and the adoptive mother of Chip Penderghast.

She is very easy-going and likable, and is very loving towards Dill, Olive, and Chip. Although she's a very nice person, she can be a little immature, so much so that she is slightly off when the moment is appropriate. She seems to like and respect pretty much anyone, and seemed to like Brandon, a friend of Olive's, almost at once.

She reveals to Olive that she dated a homosexual for a long time. She calls it, "'a long, long time'", whereupon Olive assumes that the aformentioned homosexual was none other than her father. Rosemary laughs it off, saying that her father is very heterosexual, but sometimes he is "'a little too straight'" and leaves the room at Olive's command so as we never really know what she's referring to.