Caddy Compson Caddy is the middle child of the three Compson children of “That Evening Sun.” She likes Nancy and can sense Nancy’s fear, but is too young to understand what is frightening Nancy. Candace Compson See Caddy Compson Jason Compson At age five, Jason is the youngest of the Compson children. He is quite…
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Suspicion by Dorothy L. Sayers – Characters
Ethel Mummery Ethel Mummery is Mr. Mummery’s wife. She is younger than her husband, and her actions make her seem childlike and incapable of taking care of herself. In reality, she is manipulative and deceitful, both in her affair with Welbeck and in poisoning her husband. Mr. Mummery, however, treats her as a delicate, fragile…
The Spinoza of Market Street – Characters
Black Dobbe Black Dobbe is Dr. Fischelson’s only neighbor in his garret apartment. A “spinster,” she is described as: “tall and lean, and as black as a baker’s shovel. She had a broken nose and there was a mustache on her upper lip. She spoke with the hoarse voice of a man and she wore…
The Pagan Rabbi – Characters
Iripomonoeia Iripomonoeia is the “Creature” Rabbi Isaac Kornfeld addresses in the “love” letter found in his pocket after he hanged himself from a tree in a park. She seems to be a sort of pagan goddess of Nature, who seduces the rabbi into the ‘pagan” worship of Nature over his Jewish faith. Isaac and Sheindal’s…
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka – Characters
Charwoman Hired by the Samsas to replace their live-in servant, the charwoman is a tough old woman who, unlike the other characters, is neither horrified nor frightened by Gregor’ s insect form. She even refers to Gregor affectionately as “the old dung beetle” and less affectionately threatens him with a chair. She is the one…
The Lesson by Toni Cade Bambara – Characters
Big Butt Big Butt most likely derives his nickname from his eating habits. Before the group leaves for the toy store, he is “already wasting his peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwich like the pig he is.” His response to the toys also reflects this rapaciousness. He wants things without knowing what they are. Fat Butt See Big Butt …
Leaving the Yellow House – Characters
Darly Darly is Pace’s sixty-eight-year-old ranch hand. Like Hattie, he comes from the East Coast. Darly inadvertently causes Hattie to break her arm, but he never apologizes for his mistake. Throughout the story, he and Hattie are seen as behaving antagonistically toward each other, each annoyed by the others’ tacit accusations of being a drunk….
Kew Gardens by Virginia Woolf – Characters
Eleanor The wife of Simon and the mother of two children (Caroline and Hubert), Eleanor walks through the garden chatting with her husband who tells her of his failed marriage proposal to Lily years before in Kew Garden. Eleanor remembers herself as a little girl, painting by the lake with five other girls. As Eleanor…
Heart of Darkness – Characters
The Harlequin Russian Soldier The Harlequin Russian soldier greets Marlow upon his arrival at Kurtz’s compound. A Westerner, he seems half-crazed and maniacally obsessed with the worship of Kurtz as an exceptional being. Kurtz Kurtz is a Company employee of “unsound methods,” whom Marlow has been charged with retrieving from the depths of the Congo….
Goodbye, Columbus – Characters
Carlota Carlotta is the Patimkin’s maid. That the Patimkins have a maid is an indication of their wealth. Harriet Ehrlich Harriet Ehrlich is the fiancee of Brenda’s brother Ron. Harriet arrives at the Patimkin household several days before the wedding. Neil describes her as ”a young lady singularly unconscious of a motive in others or…