Pauline is Mike and Mary’s second child and the sister of Mikie, Dobie, and Agnes. She is a thin, sickly child but has a vivid imagination, and she enjoys reading novels, comics, and romance stories. When Mary contracts consumption and/or Spanish Influenza, Pauline also displays symptoms of the disease and goes to the sanitarium to live with her mother. Before reaching adulthood, she dies of her illness a year after Mary succumbs to the disease.