Temperance Barrows

Temperance Barrows is the main characters of the book The Harpooned Heart and its sequel The Harpooned Heart II: Thunder Down Under by Marge Simpson. Temperance is based on Marge.

History
Temperance lives on Kantucket with her two children and husband Captain Mordecai Barrows who is a crude, rude, perverted druken brute. Later, she meets a stranfer, Cyrus Manley, who is new to the island. The two become very good friends and eventually, lovers.

When Mordecai finds out their relationship, he corners Cyrus on top of a cliff and throws his harpoon on him. Cyrus falls down on a whale, but the harpoon's rope becomes wrapped around Mordecai's leg, dragging him under the sea to die with his enemy.

Temperance also becomes pregnant with Cyrus' child.