Buried Child - Characters

Characters

  • Dodge - in his seventies
  • Halie - Dodge's wife; mid-sixties
  • Tilden - Their oldest son; late forties
  • Bradley - Their next-oldest son, an amputee
  • Vince - Tilden's son
  • Shelly - Vince's girlfriend
  • Father Dewis - a Protestant minister

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