The characters / Recurring character
Susan Delgado
Susan Delgado is recorded in 7 distinct storys.
Roland’s lost beloved in Mejis is repeatedly identified by her full name, the witch Rhea, her death and his grief.
Stories and supporting passages
The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger
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He slept. And dreamed. II Susan Delgado, his beloved, was dying before his eyes. He watched, his arms held by two villagers on each side, his neck dog-caught in a huge, rusty iron collar.
Roland dreams the scene of Susan dying; this is an explicitly depicted dream, not a present-day return.
The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass
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3 Susan Delgado stopped about forty yards from the witch’s hut, the sweat chilling on her arms and the nape of her neck.
Susan stops outside the witch’s hut in the narrated Mejis scene.
The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla
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Roland’s account names Susan as his first and perhaps only love.
The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah
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Eddie’s thought recalls Susan’s burning at the stake.
The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower
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Roland sees the charred stake associated with Susan’s death.
The Little Sisters of Eluria
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Dreaming. Having a nightmare. Once, at the time he had met and fallen in love with Susan Delgado, he had known a witch named Rhea—the first real witch of Mid-World he had ever met.
Roland connects Rhea to Susan’s death in his remembered history.
The Wind Through the Keyhole
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I’d never again be so young as before I met Susan Delgado, and loved her, and lost her, but I was still too young to tell this boy that his father had been torn to pieces by a monster.
Roland recalls loving and losing Susan before this youthful adventure.