write character sketch of Katrina from "The Ambassador Disguise".
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The protagonist of the novel. A 55-year-old editor of an intellectual magazine in Woollett, Massachusetts, Strether has a mustache and a gray-speckled full head of hair and he wears glasses. Strether is engaged to Mrs. Newsome, a wealthy widow who funds the magazine he edits. A widower himself, Strether lost his wife and young son many years ago. He feels guilty about these loses and wonders what life experience he has missed by not having a wife or child. Mrs. Newsome has sent Strether to Paris to find her son, Chad Newsome, and bring him back to Massachusetts. Once he returns with Chad, she will marry Strether. She chose Strether as an ambassador not only because he is an old, trusted family friend but also to test his loyalty to the Newsome family. If he were to marry Mrs. Newsome, Strether would come into a great fortune and secure his status in the upper-class community in Woollett. To some degree, Mrs. Newsome wants to make sure that Strether is worthy of both the wealth and the social status. Compulsively self-reflexive, Strether quickly realizes that his life in Woollett has entrenched him in boring routine. As he travels, Strether comes to appreciate the freedom and openness he finds in Europe, and he begins to feel as if his new, full European life makes up for many years of personal stagnation. Strether takes to warning everyone he meets that they may turn out like him—old and inexperienced—if they do not live life to the fullest while they are young. Strether is predisposed favorably toward most people: he finds a close friend in Maria Gostrey, a type of protégé in little Bilham, a replacement son in Chad, and a feminine ideal in Madame Marie de Vionnet. At the end of the novel, Strether chooses to return to Woollett, but his outlook on life is forever changed by his late-in-life experience in Europe.