Christina (Chris) Cotter Character Analysis in The Perfect Storm

Chris Cotter is Bobby Shatford’s fiancée. She is in her early 40s when The Perfect Storm is set. She is divorced, with three children from a previous marriage. Chris suffers great anxiety over Bobby’s fishing trips and often drinks to help herself cope with his long absences. Before she knows about the storm, she dreams of his death.

Christina (Chris) Cotter Character Timeline in The Perfect Storm

The timeline below shows where the character Christina (Chris) Cotter appears in The Perfect Storm. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.

...Bobby Shatford is asleep. He has a black eye. Next to him sleeps his girlfriend, Christina Cotter, a blonde woman in her early 40s. (full context)

...the Andrea Gail, a swordfishing boat, for a month-long trip to the Grand Banks. When Chris finally wakes up, she notices Bobby’s eye and wonders how she did that. (full context)

Money and the Fishing Industry Theme Icon

Chris Cotter never thought she’d set foot in the Crow’s Nest, but thanks to her friend... (full context)

Danger, Human Frailty, and Death Theme Icon

During Bobby’s first trip on the Andrea Gail, which left in August 1991, Chris spent a lot of time sitting in her car at the wharf, watching nervously for... (full context)

...drinks for everyone at the bar—sometimes spending a week’s worth of cash in one night. Chris recalls how much everyone drank before the Andrea Gail’s last voyage. She and Bobby had... (full context)

Back in the present, Chris and Bobby eat lunch and wind up, with Bugsy, drinking beer at the apartment of... (full context)

By midafternoon, the Andrea Gail is ready to go. Bobby and Chris drive back to Chris’s friend Thea’s for a few hours of privacy. At five, Sully... (full context)

Early on the morning of October 30th, long before she knows anything is the matter, Chris Cotter has a nightmare about Bobby. Later that day, Susan Brown, Bob Brown’s wife, drops... (full context)

Chris Cotter visited the Gloucester pier a lot, fighting off morbid thoughts about Bobby’s last moments.... (full context)