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American Literature

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1. Emily Dickinson The Soul, Death, Immortality, The Charioteer
2. Catch-22 John Yossarian, Captain Black, Milo Minderbinder, Major Major Major Major, Doc Daneeka
3. Edward Albee Martha, George, Honey, Nick (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?)
4. the scarlet letter Hester Prynne, Arthur Dimmesdale, Roger Chillingworth, Pearl
5. A Raisin in the Sun Walter Lee Younger, Lena Younger (Mama), Beneatha Younger, Ruth Younger
6. Ernest Hemingway Santiago (The Old Man and the Sea), Jake Barnes, Lady Brett Ashley, Frederic Henry
7. Eugene O'Neill James Tyrone, Mary Tyrone, Edmund Tyrone (Long Day's Journey into Night)
8. Sylvia Plath Esther Greenwood, Buddy Willard, Doreen, Dr. Nolan (The Bell Jar)
9. Edgar Allan Poe Roderick Usher, Madeline Usher, C. Auguste Dupin, William Wilson, The Narrator (The Tell-Tale Heart)
10. Robert Frost The Silas (The Death of the Hired Man), Mary, Warren
11. William Faulkner Benjy Compson, Quentin Compson, Caddy Compson, Thomas Sutpen
12. Arthur Miller Willy Loman, Biff Loman, John Proctor, Abigail Williams
13. Flannery O'Connor The Misfit, Grandmother, Hulga Hopewell, Manley Pointer
14. Toni Morrison Sethe, Beloved, Denver, Paul D, Milkman Dead, Pecola Breedlove
15. Walt Whitman The Captain (O Captain! My Captain!), The Section (Song of Myself)
16. Allen Ginsberg The Carl Solomon, The Moloch (Howl)
17. Beloved Sethe, Beloved, Denver, Paul D, Baby Suggs
18. Harlem Walter Lee Younger (A Raisin in the Sun named after the poem), The Dream Deferred
19. James Baldwin John Grimes, Gabriel Grimes, David, Giovanni (Giovanni's Room)
20. Tennessee Williams Blanche DuBois, Stanley Kowalski, Stella Kowalski, Amanda Wingfield,
21. To Kill a Mockingbird Scout Finch, Atticus Finch, Jem Finch, Boo Radley, Tom Robinson
22. "A Good Man is Hard to Find" The Misfit, The Grandmother, Bailey, John Wesley, June Star
23. Ambrose Bierce Peyton Farquhar (An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge)
24. Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes Prior Walter, Louis Ironson, Joe Pitt, Harper Pitt, Roy Cohn, Belize
25. Anne Bradstreet The Author, The Husband, The Children (from her domestic poems)
26. August Wilson Troy Maxson, Cory Maxson, Rose Maxson, Jim Bono (Fences)
27. Maya Angelou Marguerite Johnson (Maya), Bailey Johnson Jr., Momma Henderson
28. Our Town Stage Manager, Emily Webb, George Gibbs, Dr. Gibbs
29. The Iceman Cometh Theodore Hickman (Hickey), Harry Hope, Larry Slade, Don Parritt
30. Thornton Wilder Stage Manager, Emily Webb, George Gibbs (Our Town), Brother Juniper
31. Wallace Stevens The Crispin, The Blackbird, The Jar (The Anecdote of the Jar)
32. baseball Santiago (Hemingway's Joe DiMaggio fan), Troy Maxson (Wilson's ex-player), Pop F
33. Edith Wharton Newland Archer, Ellen Olenska, May Welland (The Age of Innocence), Lily Bart
34. John Steinbeck George Milton, Lennie Small, Tom Joad, Ma Joad, Jim Casy
35. Nathaniel Hawthorne Hester Prynne, Young Goodman Brown, Faith, Giovanni Guasconti
36. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Randle McMurphy, Nurse Ratched, Chief Bromden, Dale Harding
37. Phillis Wheatley The Muse, The Christian, General Washington (from her poems)
38. Ray Bradbury Guy Montag, Captain Beatty, Clarisse McClellan (Fahrenheit 451)
39. The Catcher in the Rye Holden Caulfield, Phoebe Caulfield, Ackley, Stradlater,
40. The Crucible John Proctor, Abigail Williams, Reverend John Hale, Elizabeth Proctor
41. The Glass Menagerie Amanda Wingfield, Laura Wingfield, Tom Wingfield, Jim O'Connor
42. William Carlos Williams Paterson, The Red Wheelbarrow (conceptual objects/figures)
43. "The Lottery" Tessie Hutchinson, Old Man Warner, Mr. Summers, Bill Hutchinson
44. Abraham Lincoln The Captain (Whitman's poem), Abraham Lincoln
45. AIDS Prior Walter, Roy Cohn (Angels in America), Kent (The Normal Heart)
46. California Tom Joad (The Grapes of Wrath), George Milton (Of Mice and Men)
47. Carl Sandburg Chicago (The city personified as a hog butcher, stormer, husky, brawling player)
48. Chicago Bigger Thomas (Native Son), Chicago Persona (Sandburg), Walter Lee Younger
49. Cormac McCarthy The Boy, The Man (The Road), Llewelyn Moss, Anton Chigurh, The Judge
50. Death of A Salesman Willy Loman, Linda Loman, Biff Loman, Happy Loman, Charley
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