Catherine (Katie) Halsey Timeline and Summary

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Catherine (Katie) Halsey Timeline and Summary

  • Katie is Keating's patient, on-again, off-again girlfriend.
  • Her life becomes increasingly dominated by her uncle, Ellsworth Toohey.
  • Keating and Katie get engaged.
  • Katie grows afraid of her uncle and begs Keating to marry her immediately.
  • But when they both calm down they agree to wait.
  • Katie grows increasingly disenchanted with her work as a social worker.
  • Toohey emotionally manipulates and abuses her into staying with her job.
  • Keating then tells Katie they'll get married for real.
  • But he jilts her and runs off with Dominique instead.
  • Katie has a bit of a breakdown.
  • Years later she meets Keating again, a vastly changed woman.
  • She's brittle and cold and works in Washington D.C. for some sort of social agency.
  • She leaves Keating very unemotionally, which disturbs him.