Famous Characters American Lit 2

boyish heroine and writer who lives with sisters in Little Women

12 year old boy who makes friends with a fawn in Florida in The Yearling

10 year old boy and the main character in The Red Pony

relays Miles Standish's marriage proposal in a Longfellow poem

well-dressed handsome gambler who helps others survive in The Outcasts of Poker Flat

deaf-mute who listens to others of the boarding house in The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

boy with crippled hands who meets Paul Revere and John Hancock in Johnny Tremain

attractive young women who woes Brom Bones and Ichabod Crane in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

West African shipped to America in Roots

British aristocrat who has a series of affairs in The Sun Also Rises

Kind half-witted man who is killed by his friend George Milton to keep a mob from harming him in Of Men and Mice

Augustine St. Claire's daughter who dies in Uncle Tom's Cabin

poor New York boy who inherits and English castle in Burnetts tale

slum child in a girl of the streets

first name of Ms. March, the mom raising 4 girls in Little Women

small town doctor and researcher who fights disease on a Caribbean island in Arrowsmith

abandon cousin who is taken by the Fromes and becomes an invalid when she tries to end her life in Ethan Frome

private eye who uses violence to solve his problems in Spillane's novels

real-life Indian fighter with red hair who appears in Longfellow's poem about a courtship

owner of M&M enterprises who tries to run the war in Catch-22

eccentric store owner with a close relationship with cousin Lymon in The Ballad of the Sad Cafe

frontiersman nicknamed Hawkeye, Pathfinder and Trapper in The Leatherstocking Tales

heavyset orchid loving detective in Fer-de-Lance

hero in the short story collection In Our Time and Men Without Women

Hester Pyrnee's illegitimate child by Arthur Dimmesdale in A Red Badge of Courage

investigating lawyer in The Case of the Velvet Claws

California private detective in The Big Sleep

treasonous man sentanced to the remainder of his life at sea in The Man Without a Country

pretty well behaved orphan known as the "Glad Girl" and in the book of the same name

crippled black hero in a Heyward novel about the Deep South

prince who changes clothes with a beggar in The Prince and the Pauper

suicidal offspring in of the Compson family in The Sound and the Fury and Absalom, Absalom!

Polynesian harpooner and Ishmael's friend in Moby Dick

rebellious hero who is committed to a mental hospital in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

runs guns and supplies during the Civil War and becomes Margaret Mitchell's 3rd husband in Gone With the Wind

falls asleep for 20 years in the Catskills and isn't recognized when he returns

American fighting in the Spanish Civil War and falls in love with Maria in For Whom the Bell Tolls

mansion owner whose house splits and sinks into tar after he dies from the shock of his sister dying in a Poe short story

Hester Pyrnne's wronged and estranged husband who returns as her nemesis in The Scarlett Letter

tough private detective in San Francisco in The Maltese Falcon

flirtatious, charming Southern belle who takes Rhett Butler as her 3rd husband in Gone With the Wind

6 year-old who narrates her attorney fathers defense of a black man accused of raping a women in To Kill a Mockingbird

unscrupulous businessman who strives to get ahead but fails in The Rise of Silas Lapham

cruel slave driver who whips Uncle Tom to death in Uncle Tom's Cabin

God-fearing mate who tries to dissuade Captain Ahab in Moby Dick

working class Irish American who is the main character in Farrell's Trilogy

novelist who loves wrestling and whose son lost an eye in a bizarre auto accident in The World According to Garp

beggar who changes clothes with a king in The Prince and the Pauper

first-born son and the hero of the family of Okies going to California in The Grapes of Wrath

orphan slave girl who said "I 'spect I growed" in Uncle Tom's Cabin

black slave who tells the tales related by Harris

black slave who is considered to be subservient to whites in Uncle Tom's Cabin

nameless cowboy who was insulted in Winster's 1902 novel

quiet easy-going, timid man who dreams of glory and heroic actions in a Thurber story

corrupt Southern governor considered to be a fictional version of Huey Long in All the Kings Men

title character on Death of a Salesmen who kills himself

Ethan's wife who banishes Mattie Silver in Ethan Frome