Myra Lightcap is Henry's first wife. Myra Mishkin was an artist, although Henry did not care for her art work. Once married, Henry moves Myra into a run-down abode that he and she are supposed to take care of. Myra hates it. Myra is upper class and tries to push Henry into becoming a professor. He tries to convince her that simple living is a more preferable existence. They consistently fight. When Henry and Myra throw a housewarming party, Henry finds himself drunk and with another woman and Myra leaves with friends. In the end, their house burns to the ground. They separate, and Myra mails him six months later, noting she is three months pregnant. When he arrives in New York, they make love, and she informs him that she wants him, her husband, to take responsibility for the child she is carrying, even though it is not his. Eventually, Henry is bullied into it. Myra's father is ill, but her family is powerful and gets Henry gainful employment. Henry becomes restless and leaves again, following the birth of the baby. Myra, like many women, sees potential in Henry but is disappointed when he does not achieve that potential.
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