Characters in Short Story

Marya

Lived in Moscow with her family until her parents died and she moved to a village as a school teacher

Semyon

Driver of the cart who is very practical and always chooses the driest and shortest routes

Hanov

A wealthy man who shows Marya the opportunity for companionship. Is naive about the lives of those in the lower classes

Colonel Bryan Kelly

Sacrifices his son; ability to shift between a person to a wartime leader

Barzov

The Russian military leader; wants to prove himself as the intellect; lets Kelly's son live

Pi Ying

Follows the type of a guerilla leader; insecure and constantly tryin to impress Barzov and the oriental girl

Margaret

Wife to Colonel Kelly; shows emotion death and is a maternal figure; limited strategic knowledge

Mr. Das

The father in the story who is very into the tour and doesn't realize there is something going on between his wife and Mr. Kapasi; doesn't know that Bobby isn't his child; obsession with his camera

Mrs. Das

The mother who is unable to pay attention to her children, instead focusing on her appearance; has an affair with Mr. Das's friend resulting in Bobby

Mr. Kapasi

The Indian tour guide who accompanies the Das family on their trip; Was once fluent in many languages but now speaks only English; dreamed of being a diplomat but now works as a translator in a doctor's office, a job he acquired when his young son died from typhoid; lives in a loveless, arranged marriage and no longer sees himself as a potential object of interest for women; entertains fantasies about Mrs. Das

Jackson Jackson

seeks to purchase his grandmother's stolen regalia however he constantly goes around spending money and trying to form a community; is diabetic; takes money from his passed out friend's pocket

Officer Williams

finds Jackson Jackson lying on the railroad and gives him a candy bar; sees Jackson as a human and holds a conversation while thinking about what he is actually saying; gives J money because he has faith in him

The Aleuts

Sit on a wooden bench staring out over the bay while waiting for their boat to come back; go with Jackson to the Big Kitchen to get breakfast with him; Jackson hears they waded into the water and disappeared

Emma Zunz

Receives a letter of her father's death and begins an elaborate plan to revenge him; has sex with a guy, to which she holds zero attraction to, in order to set up an elaborate plan to kill Lowenthal; claims to be non-violent

Manuel Maier

Emma's father that was accused of stealing the money and ran away; Emma believes he died by suicide; drops the part of his name that connects him to Emma

Aaron Lowenthal

the man Emma believes to have stolen the money but dies before uttering the truth; Emma had gone to him on the pretense of the strike

Lomba

A man in prison who starts a diary as a way of expressing himself; gets caught with the papers and pen and is forced to write for the superintendent; holds and inmate that was dying

Janice

Women who sees Lomba as a human and receives Lomba's cryptic messages; holds him and becomes the first touch of a women in a long time

Muftau

The superintendent that asks Lomba to write poetry for Janice; doesn't list Lomba as a person to get amnesty

Gale

the cousin the narrator wants to impress ad comfort by buying the red slippers; cries while watching the man stranded on the otheer planet while songs from the Wizard of Oz are playing; leaves the narrator for a caveman