Artemis Victor

Artemis Victor is one of the novel’s primary characters. Sequences from her life and storyline primarily feature in the chapters “Artemis Victor vs. Andi Taylor” and “Artemis Victor vs. Rachel Doricko.” These chapters depict Artemis’s respective fights with Andi Taylor and Rachel Doricko. Therefore, the narrator inhabits Artemis’s consciousness while she is boxing her opponents. Thus, she reveals the complex details of her inner life and personal experience.

Artemis “is the youngest of the three Victor sisters, a family of boxers whose parents come to every single one of Artemis’s matches” (8). Because of this family boxing tradition, Artemis is desperate to win the Daughters of America Cup championship. She wants to make her parents proud, and she wants to prove herself to be “the best in the country, the best woman under eighteen in the United States at boxing” (10). Throughout her matches in...