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boyish heroine and writer who lives with sisters in Little Women
Jo March
12 year old boy who makes friends with a fawn in Florida in The Yearling
Jody Baxter
10 year old boy and the main character in The Red Pony
Jody Tiflin
relays Miles Standish's marriage proposal in a Longfellow poem
John Alden
well-dressed handsome gambler who helps others survive in The Outcasts of Poker Flat
John Oakherst
deaf-mute who listens to others of the boarding house in The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
John Singer
boy with crippled hands who meets Paul Revere and John Hancock in Johnny Tremain
Johnny Tremain
attractive young women who woes Brom Bones and Ichabod Crane in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Katrina Van Tassel
West African shipped to America in Roots
Kunta Kinte
British aristocrat who has a series of affairs in The Sun Also Rises
Lady Brett Ashley
Kind half-witted man who is killed by his friend George Milton to keep a mob from harming him in Of Men and Mice
Lennie Small
Augustine St. Claire's daughter who dies in Uncle Tom's Cabin
Little Eva
poor New York boy who inherits and English castle in Burnetts tale
Little Lord Fauntleroy
slum child in a girl of the streets
Maggie Johnson
first name of Ms. March, the mom raising 4 girls in Little Women
Marmee
small town doctor and researcher who fights disease on a Caribbean island in Arrowsmith
Martin Arrowsmith
abandon cousin who is taken by the Fromes and becomes an invalid when she tries to end her life in Ethan Frome
Mattie Silver
private eye who uses violence to solve his problems in Spillane's novels
Mike Hammer
real-life Indian fighter with red hair who appears in Longfellow's poem about a courtship
Miles Standish
owner of M&M enterprises who tries to run the war in Catch-22
Milo Minderbinder
eccentric store owner with a close relationship with cousin Lymon in The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
Miss Amelia
frontiersman nicknamed Hawkeye, Pathfinder and Trapper in The Leatherstocking Tales
Natty Bumpo
heavyset orchid loving detective in Fer-de-Lance
Nero Wolfe
hero in the short story collection In Our Time and Men Without Women
Nick Adams
Hester Pyrnee's illegitimate child by Arthur Dimmesdale in A Red Badge of Courage
Pearl
investigating lawyer in The Case of the Velvet Claws
Perry Mason
California private detective in The Big Sleep
Philip Marlowe
treasonous man sentanced to the remainder of his life at sea in The Man Without a Country
Philip Nolan
pretty well behaved orphan known as the "Glad Girl" and in the book of the same name
Pollyanna
crippled black hero in a Heyward novel about the Deep South
Porgy
prince who changes clothes with a beggar in The Prince and the Pauper
Prince Edward
suicidal offspring in of the Compson family in The Sound and the Fury and Absalom, Absalom!
Quentin Compson
Polynesian harpooner and Ishmael's friend in Moby Dick
Queequeg
rebellious hero who is committed to a mental hospital in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Randell Patrick McMurphy
runs guns and supplies during the Civil War and becomes Margaret Mitchell's 3rd husband in Gone With the Wind
Rhett Butler
falls asleep for 20 years in the Catskills and isn't recognized when he returns
Rip Van Winkle
American fighting in the Spanish Civil War and falls in love with Maria in For Whom the Bell Tolls
Robert Jorden
mansion owner whose house splits and sinks into tar after he dies from the shock of his sister dying in a Poe short story
Roderick Usher
Hester Pyrnne's wronged and estranged husband who returns as her nemesis in The Scarlett Letter
Roger Chillingworth
tough private detective in San Francisco in The Maltese Falcon
Sam Spade
flirtatious, charming Southern belle who takes Rhett Butler as her 3rd husband in Gone With the Wind
Scarlett O'Hara
6 year-old who narrates her attorney fathers defense of a black man accused of raping a women in To Kill a Mockingbird
Scout (Jean Louise) Finch
unscrupulous businessman who strives to get ahead but fails in The Rise of Silas Lapham
Silas Lapham
cruel slave driver who whips Uncle Tom to death in Uncle Tom's Cabin
Simon Legree
God-fearing mate who tries to dissuade Captain Ahab in Moby Dick
Starbuck
working class Irish American who is the main character in Farrell's Trilogy
Studs Lonigan
novelist who loves wrestling and whose son lost an eye in a bizarre auto accident in The World According to Garp
T.S. Garp
beggar who changes clothes with a king in The Prince and the Pauper
Tom Canty
first-born son and the hero of the family of Okies going to California in The Grapes of Wrath
Tom Joad
orphan slave girl who said "I 'spect I growed" in Uncle Tom's Cabin
Topsy
black slave who tells the tales related by Harris
Uncle Remus
black slave who is considered to be subservient to whites in Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Tom
nameless cowboy who was insulted in Winster's 1902 novel
The Virginian
quiet easy-going, timid man who dreams of glory and heroic actions in a Thurber story
Walter Mitty
corrupt Southern governor considered to be a fictional version of Huey Long in All the Kings Men
Willie Stark
title character on Death of a Salesmen who kills himself
Willy Lorman
Ethan's wife who banishes Mattie Silver in Ethan Frome
Zeena Frome
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