Characters
- Dr. Heidegger - Old and wise physician who is the protagonist of the story.
- Colonel Killigrew - A man who throughout his life has had many different sexual partners and many different pleasures.
- Mr. Medbourne - Once a rich merchant who lost most of his money gambling, but claimed that he lost it in a stock investment.
- Mr. Gascoigne - A politician whose career was cut short.
- Widow Wycherly - Formerly a beautiful woman loved by the three gentlemen.
- Sylvia Ward- Woman whose portrait hangs on the wall. She was supposed to marry Dr. Heidegger but died a day before their marriage
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“When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in their action, in their words, in the situations which they suggest to him.”
—Luigi Pirandello (1867–1936)
“We are like travellers using the cinders of a volcano to roast their eggs. Whilst we see that it always stands ready to clothe what we would say, we cannot avoid the question whether the characters are not significant of themselves.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“The more gifted and talkative one’s characters are, the greater the chances of their resembling the author in tone or tint of mind.”
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