Famous Characters American Lit

easily falls in love in Booth Tarkington's 1921 novel

captains daughter falls in love with an Irish seaman in Eugene O'Neill's play

maiden in a "kingdom by the sea" in an Edgar Allen Poe poem

hero in Hervey Allen's work set in the Napoleonic era

daughter of Bohemian immigrants and is heroine in Willa Cather's book about farm life in Nebraska

has a child with Hester Prynne in The Scarlet Letter

hero in Poe's novel about a stowaway on a whaling ship

widowed southern lawyer who defends a black man accused of rape in a Lee novel

Dorothy's aunt in The Wizard of Oz

New York scrivener who tells employer " I would prefer not to" in a Melville short story

Tom Sawyer's sweethart

victim of racial prejudice and convicted to death for a double murder in the Native Son

young sailor who is falsely hanged in Billy Budd

hero in Slaughterhouse-Five who travels between Dresden and Tralfamadore

moves in with sister and brother-in-law in A Streetcar Named Desire

Ichabod Crane's rival for love in The Legend of Sleepy Hallow

detective in Paris who is the master of logical thinking in # Poe stories

captain of Peqoid in Moby Dick

captain of the Caine in The Caine Mutany

heroine who seeks future of acting in New York in Sister Carrie

baseball player who strikes out in Casey at the Bat

ex-prostitute who leaves a man to go back to previous life in East of Eden

black heroine in the color purple

Mohican Indian chief in the Leatherstocking novels

young man who tries to succeed by lets a girl drown and is killed for it in An American Tradegy

Jay Gatsby moves to be with her in a Fitzgerald novel

American women courted in Europe in a Henry James novel

hero in Wheeler's novels about the Wild West

New York detective created by Lee and Dannay

ex-football player turned evangelist to become rich in Lewis novel

daughter of newspaper editor in Our Town

farmer who falls in love with his wife Zeena's cousin in an Edith Wharton novel

hero of Wolfe's semi-autobiographical novels

beautiful women separated from husband in Evangeline

girl who saves Wilbur in Charlotte's Webb

12 year-old tomboy who believes she will go on her brothers honeymoon in A Member of the Wedding

Army lieutenant who falls in love with Catherine Barkley in A Farewell to Arms

central character who invents the lever and wheel in The Skin Is Our Teeth

real estate agent in Babbitt

anti hero in a and car dealer nicknamed "Rabbit" in John Updike's books

disguise Brom Bones uses to scare Ichabod Crane

young soldier who becomes unexpected hero in A Red Badge of Courage

women who wheres a red A for committing adultery in A Red Badge of Courage

Indian leader who lives with his wife in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poem

rebellious 16 year-old who says he has a lousy childhood in The Catcher in the Rye

free spirited heroine in Breakfast At Tiffany's

Widow Douglas' ward who has adventures on the Mississippi in a Twain novel

tall, skinny school teacher frightened by headless horseman in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Half-breed who kills Dr. Robinson in Tom Sawyer

goes to Europe, gets courted and marries Gilbert Osmond in The Portrait of a Lady

narrator and only survivor of the Pequod in Moby-Dick

farmer who says he would sell his soul to the devil in The Devil and Daniel Webster

Willie Starks aid who serves as the narrator in All the King's Men

judge who murders to gain control of the family fortune in The House of Seven Gables

WWII hero in The Sun Also Rises

Tarzan's love in Tarzan and the Apes

mysterious rich man on Long Island who tries to revive romance but is killed Fitzgerald novel

Georgia cotton farmer who lives in a beat up shack in Tobacco Road

runaway slave who embarks on a voyage down the Mississippi with Huck Finn

narrator in My Antonia