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Fictional Characters
Characters and their descriptions
| Character | Description |
|---|---|
| Alice Adams | Ambitious small-town title character who easily falls in love in Booth Tarkington's 1921 novel |
| Anna Christie | Swedish sea captain's daughter who falls in love with an Irish seaman in a Eugene O'Neill play |
| Annabel Lee | Beautiful maiden in a "kingdom by the sea" in an Edgar Allan Poe poem |
| Anthony Adverse | Picaresque hero and title character of Hervey Allen's 1934 historical romance set in the Napoleonic era |
| Antonia Shimerda | Daughter of Bohemian immigrants who is the heroine in Willa Cather's 1918 novel My Antonia, which realistically portrays farm life in Nebraska |
| Arthur Dimmesdale | Minister with whom Hester Prynne has a child in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter |
| Atticus Finch | Widowed Southern lawyer with 2 children who defends a black man accused of the rape of a white woman in a Harper Lee novel |
| Auntie Em | Dorothy's hard-working aunt in L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz |
| Bartleby | New York scrivener who tells his employer "I would prefer not to" in a Herman Melville short story |
| Becky Thatcher | Tom Sawyer's sweetheart in Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer |
| Bigger Thomas | Victim of racial prejudice from a Chicago slum condemned to death for a double murder in Richard Wright's Native Son |
| Billy Budd | Young sailor on a British warship who is falsely accused and hanged in Herman Melville's Billy Budd |
| Billy Pilgrim | Hero of Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five who travels between the fire-bombing of Dresden in 1945 and the planet Tralfamadore in the distant future |
| Blanche Dubois | Faded Southern belle who moves in with her sister and brother-in-law in Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire |
| Brom Bones | Ichabod Crane's rival for the love of Katrina Van Tassel in Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" |
| C. Auguste Dupin | Detective in Paris who is the master of logical reasoning or exact thinking, called ratiocination, in 3 Edgar Allan Poe stories |
| Captain Ahab | Obsessed, one-legged captain of the whaling-ship Pequod who seeks revenge in capturing the white whale that cost him his leg in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick |
| Captain Queeg | Irrational captain of the minesweeper Caine in Herman Wouk's The Caine Mutiny |
| Carrie Meeber | Heroine who leaves a rural life to seek her fortune and after becoming an actress in New York rejects her lover George Hurstwood, leading to his suicide in Theodore Dreiser's naturalistic 1900 novel Sister Carrie |
| Casey | Baseball player who strikes out in the ninth inning resulting in "No joy in Mudville" in Ernest Lawrence Thayer's "Casey at the Bat" |
| Cathy Ames Trask | Ex-prostitute who gives birth to twins but leaves Adam Trask and returns to her previous life in John Steinbeck's East of Eden |
| Celie | Black heroine of Alice Walker's The Color Purple who grows up in the Southern U.S. and suffers cruel treatment from her father and husband but finds a female friend |
| Chingachgook | Mohican Indian chief and longtime friend of Natty Bumppo in James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking novels |
| Clyde Griffiths | Young man from a poor background who tries to succeed in New York but allows a girl to drown and is executed for her murder in Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy |
| Cruella de Vil | Blue-blooded villainess who kidnaps a brood of puppies to make fur coats out of them in a Disney film based on a Dodie Smith novel |
| Daisy Buchanan | Southern belle Jay Gatsby so loves that he moves to Long Island to be near her even though she has married another in an F. Scott Fitzgerald novel |
| Daisy Miller | Young American woman who is courted by Frederick Forsyth Winterbourne in Europe in a Henry James novel bearing her name |
| Deadwood Dick | Hero of Edward L. Wheeler's 19th-century dime novels about the Wild West |
| Dorothy Gale | Kansas girl who finds herself with her dog Toto in an enchanted kingdom after being carried off by a tornado in L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz |
| Eeyore | Gloomy donkey living in the Hundred-Acre-Wood in a series of books by A.A. Milne |
| Ellery Queen | New York detective created by Manfred B. Lee and Frederick Dannay |
| Elmer Gantry | Ex-football player turned evangelist to become rich in a Sinclair Lewis novel |
| Emily Webb | Smart, imaginative daughter of the newspaper editor in Grover's Corners, New Hampshire, who dies in childbirth in Thornton Wilder's Our Town |
| Ethan Frome | New England farmer who falls in love with his wife Zeena's cousin in a 1911 Edith Wharton novel |
| Eugene Gant | Hero of Thomas Wolfe's semi-autobiographical novels Look Homeward, Angel and Of Time and the River |
| Evangeline Bellefontaine | Beautiful woman separated from her betrothed Gabrielle Lajeunesse after the Acadians are expelled in Longfellow's Evangeline |
| Fern | Young girl who saves Wilbur the pig from being immediately slaughtered in E.B. White's Charlotte's Web |
| Frankie Addams | 12-year-old Georgia tomboy who believes she will go with her brother and his bride on their honeymoon in Carson McCullers' A Member of the Wedding |
| Frederic Henry | Army lieutenant during WWII who falls in love with Catherine Barkley in Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms |
| George Antrobus | Central character who invents the lever and the wheel and is a father figure in Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth |
| George F. Babbitt | Real estate agent in Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt |
| (The) Grinch | Dr. Seuss' miserly character who tries to ruin other people's happiness in How the Grinch Stole Christmas |
| Harry Angstrom | Anti-hero and car dealer nicknamed "Rabbit" in John Updike's Rabbit novels |
| Headless Horseman | Disguise Brom Bones takes on to terrorize Ichabod Crane in Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" |
| Henry Fleming | Young soldier who becomes an unintentional hero in Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage |
| Hester Prynne | Woman who has to wear a red letter A on her dress as punishment for her adultery in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter |
| Hiawatha | Indian leader who lives with his wife Minnehaha near Gitchee Gumee in a Longfellow poem |
| Holden Caulfield | Rebellious 16-year-old who says he had a "lousy childhood" in J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye |
| Holly Golightly | Free-spirited heroine in Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's |
| Huckleberry Finn | Widow Douglas' ward who has adventures on the Mississippi in Mark Twain's novel |
| Ichabod Crane | Tall, skinny schoolteacher frightened by a Headless Horseman in Washington Irving's story |
| Injun Joe | Half-breed who kills Dr. Robinson in Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer |
| Isabel Archer | Attractive woman who goes to Europe, is courted by many men, and marries poorly in Henry James' The Portrait of a Lady |
| Ishmael | Narrator and only survivor of the Pequod in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick |
| Jabez Stone | Unfortunate New Hampshire farmer who said he would sell his soul to the devil in "The Devil and Daniel Webster" |
| Jack Burden | Willie Stark's aide and narrator in Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men |
| Jaffrey Pyncheon | Judge who murders to gain control of the family fortune in Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables |
| Jake Barnes | WWI-wounded impotent hero of Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises |
| Jane Porter | Tarzan's beloved in Edgar Rice Burroughs' novels |
| Jay Gatsby | Mysterious rich man who tries to revive his romance with Daisy Buchanan but is shot in Fitzgerald's novel |
| Jeeter Lester | Georgia cotton-farmer in Erskine Caldwell's Tobacco Road |
| Jim | Runaway slave who travels with Huck Finn in Mark Twain's novel |
| Jim Burden | Narrator in Willa Cather's My Antonia |
| Jo March | Boyish heroine and aspiring writer in Louisa May Alcott's Little Women |
| Jody Baxter | 12-year-old boy who befriends a fawn in Rawlings' The Yearling |
| Jody Tiflin | 10-year-old boy in Steinbeck's "The Red Pony" |
| John Alden | Character who relays Miles Standish's proposal to Priscilla Mullens in Longfellow's poem |
| John Oakhurst | Handsome gambler in Bret Harte's "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" |
| John Singer | Deaf-mute who listens sympathetically to others in McCullers' The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter |
| Johnny Tremain | Boy with crippled hands who meets Paul Revere in Esther Forbes' novel |
| Katrina Van Tassel | Attractive young woman wooed by Brom Bones and Ichabod Crane |
| Kunta Kinte | West African enslaved in the 18th century in Alex Haley's Roots |
| Lady Brett Ashley | British aristocrat with many affairs in Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises |
| Lennie Small | Kind, half-witted giant killed by his friend George in Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men |
| Little Eva | Augustine St. Clare's daughter who dies in Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| Little Lord Fauntleroy | Poor New York boy who inherits an English castle |
| Maggie Johnson | Slum child in Stephen Crane's Maggie: A Girl of the Streets |
| Marmee | Mother raising four daughters in Little Women |
| Martin Arrowsmith | Idealistic doctor and researcher in Sinclair Lewis' Arrowsmith |
| Mattie Silver | Cousin who becomes an invalid after a sledding accident in Ethan Frome |
| Mike Hammer | Violent private eye in Mickey Spillane's novels |
| Miles Standish | Real-life Indian fighter in Longfellow's poem |
| Milo Minderbinder | Owner of M&M Enterprises in Catch-22 |
| Miss Amelia | Eccentric storeowner in McCullers' The Ballad of the Sad Café |
| Natty Bumpo | Frontiersman nicknamed Hawkeye, Pathfinder, Trapper, Leatherstocking |
| Nero Wolfe | Heavyset orchid-loving detective created by Rex Stout |
| Nick Adams | Hero of Hemingway's short stories |
| Pearl | Hester Prynne's illegitimate child in The Scarlet Letter |
| Perry Mason | Investigating lawyer created by Erle Stanley Gardner |
| Philip Marlowe | California private detective created by Raymond Chandler |
| Philip Nolan | Treasonous man sentenced to live at sea in "The Man Without a Country" |
| Pollyanna | Optimistic orphan known as the "Glad Girl" |
| Porgy | Crippled black hero in DuBose Heyward's novel |
| Prince Edward | Prince who changes clothes with Tom Canty in The Prince and the Pauper |
| Quentin Compson | Suicidal Compson family member in Faulkner's novels |
| Queequeg | Polynesian harpooner and Ishmael's friend in Moby-Dick |
| Randall Patrick McMurphy | Rebellious mental patient in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
| Rhett Butler | Gun-runner and Scarlett O'Hara's third husband in Gone With the Wind |
| Rip Van Winkle | Man who sleeps 20 years in Washington Irving's story |
| Robert Jordan | American fighting in the Spanish Civil War in For Whom the Bell Tolls |
| Roderick Usher | Mansion owner whose house collapses in Poe's story |
| Roger Chillingworth | Hester Prynne's estranged husband in The Scarlet Letter |
| Sam Spade | Tough private detective in The Maltese Falcon |
| Scarlett O'Hara | Flirtatious Southern belle who saves Tara and marries Rhett Butler |
| Scout (Jean Louise) Finch | 6-year-old narrator of To Kill a Mockingbird |
| Silas Lapham | Unscrupulous businessman in The Rise of Silas Lapham |
| Simon Legree | Cruel slave driver in Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| Starbuck | Chief mate on the Pequod who opposes Ahab |
| Studs Lonigan | Working-class Irish American in James T. Farrell's trilogy |
| T.S. Garp | Novelist and wrestler in The World According to Garp |
| Tarzan | Hero raised by apes in Edgar Rice Burroughs' novels |
| Tom Canty | Beggar who switches clothes with a prince in The Prince and the Pauper |
| Tom Joad | Hero of The Grapes of Wrath |
| Tom Sawyer | Boy who gets into scrapes in Mark Twain's novel |
| Topsy | Orphan slave girl in Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| Uncas | Native American hero in The Last of the Mohicans |
| Uncle Remus | Black storyteller in Joel Chandler Harris' tales |
| Uncle Tom | Elderly slave in Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| The Virginian | Cowboy hero who says "When you call me that, smile" |
| Wang | Chinese peasant in Pearl Buck's The Good Earth |
| Walter Mitty | Timid man who dreams of glory in James Thurber's story |
| Willie Stark | Corrupt Southern governor in All the King's Men |
| Willy Loman | Title character in Death of a Salesman |
| Wizard of Oz | Powerless old man posing as a great wizard |
| Wolf Larsen | Ruthless ship captain in The Sea Wolf |
| (John) Yossarian | Anti-hero pilot in Catch-22 |
| Zeena Frome | Ethan's wife who banishes Mattie Silver in Ethan Frome |
| Arthur Gordon Pym | Hero of Edgar Allan Poe's novel about a man who stows away on a whaling ship and ends up at the South Pole |
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