Peggy Graham

Peggy Graham is a character from the main canonical universe of Housewives of Whitehaven. Peggy lives in Whitehaven with her husband Harold Graham and her son Jimmy Graham. She is one of three main characters, meaning she also appears in non-canonical, alternate universes of Whitehaven.

Character Design
Peggy's design is reminiscent of the blonde, white, Christian housewife archetype in media, showcased by her long, dirty-blonde hair and fair-to-medium skin, adorned with facial creases displaying to her age. Alongside her curvy physique, Peggy can be frequently seen sporting knitwear as well as more sophisticated garments, mostly in shades of beige and olive. These are usually combined with various red accents, e.g. red nails or red lips.

Personality
Peggy can be described as a classy and sophisticated individual with expensive taste, at least from the eyes of the average, unsuspecting neighbor, but behind the façade of middle-class glamour lie severe built-up frustration and envy. Being used to portray perfection at all times, Peggy's aura of sophistication and respectability becomes more and more challenging to maintain as unwarranted changes in the neighborhood begin to threaten her social standing.

Peggy is extremely strategic when it comes to maintaining her position in Whitehaven's social food chain. Most relationships she forms with her fellow housewives and neighbors she does for potential personal gain. Her current unemployment allows Peggy to analyze her surroundings and make the neighborhood her playground through sabotage, blackmail but also alliances and gossip.

Though as previously stated, Peggy's façade is at the risk of cracking, may it because of more impressive newcomers to the neighborhood, Peggy's failing marriage and resulting affair with Mark Reynolds or her own overestimation of her own personal skillset, whether that involves cooking, socializing or strategizing.

Cooking
Peggy dedicates a lot of free time to perfect her own recipes and pick up tips from her neighbors. During events like contests, bake sales and potlucks, she studies the abilities of her competition, mingles for recipes and even uses sabotage in order to get her way if necessary. That being said, Peggy's cooking and baking remains some of Whitehaven's most enjoyed. In addition to that, Peggy occasionally spends time on cooking forums and channels not only taking other people's advice, but sometimes even sharing her own (if she is feeling generous).

Recipes

 * Kale juice jelly
 * Potato chip casserole

Gardening
The Graham family owns a shed in their backyard which Peggy has, in recent times, remodeled into Headquarters for her and her friends to strategize inside of. The shed is equipped with a chalkboard, a corkboard, and other useful tools to discuss neighborhood events as well as the neighbors themselves. To avoid suspicion, Peggy has taken up gardening after a few years of inactivity, to make sure her neighbors don't suspect anything. That being said, her interest in gardening is genuine, though she still is a bit rusty at it.

Harold Graham (Husband)
Harold and Peggy are a married couple, though their relationship has been on a steady decline for a while now. Conflicting schedules, interests and desires have lead to their marriage to become stale, secretive and ingenuine at times. Thus, Peggy has begun an affair with her neighbor Mark in order to receive the romantic satisfaction she's lacking from Harold. In addition to that, Harold's newly acquired obsession with modern tech and high-end gadgets as well as his interest in stock market investments (and things similar to that) strongly contrast Peggy's emphasis on tradition and her "do-it-yourself" mentality.

Jimmy Graham (Son)
Despite her current, silent conflict with her husband, Peggy's relationship with her son appears to be doing pretty well. Being the housewife and stay-at-home mom, Peggy has plenty of time with Jimmy and therefore does most of the parenting, which includes instilling values of being presentable, successful and sociable, things Peggy cares a lot about, which unfortunately also burdens Jimmy with occasional performance pressure and insecurities. Since Peggy is rather unfamiliar with Jimmy's interest in video games, both of them also share plenty of time away from each other.

Carol Reynolds (Friend)
Carol and Peggy have many things in common. They are both stay-at-home mothers and have a decently good reputation within their community. As their friendship has evolved with time, both of them love to catch up at least every other day, have brunch, gossip or watch television together. Despite that, Peggy envies Carol, as she is unintentionally and effortlessly liked by most of the neighborhood. Here, Peggy's strategic and over-analytical nature contradicts with Carol's easygoing way of doing things. Carol also trusts Peggy to babysit Susie whenever it is necessary.

Amanda May (Friend)
Amanda and Peggy very much aren't alike. While Peggy is constantly climbing the social ladder, Amanda does not seem to care much about her reputation. Their interactions are usually passive-aggressive and sarcastic, but they make it work. They enjoy each others' company, even though neither of them really admit it. The reason both of them even have any common ground is their mutual interest in social sabotage and neighborhood analysis, while Carol is more on the sidelines in this regard.

Mark Reynolds (Affair)
Peggy and Mark are each cheating on their own spouses with each other. Both of them feel distant from their partners and seek romantic gratification from one another. Their affair is not primarily of sexual interest and they instead spend the time they have together going on dates outside of town. They frequent dinner dates and visits to parks, cinemas, etc.