Main Characters
- Ethan Allen Hawley – a grocery clerk (the story's protagonist)
- Mary Hawley – Ethan's wife
- Allen and Ellen Hawley – his adolescent children
- Danny Taylor – Ethan's childhood friend and town drunk
- Joey Morphy – bank teller and town playboy
- Margie Young-Hunt – middle-aged seductress and Mary's friend
- Mr. Baker – banker
- Alfio Marullo – Italian immigrant owner of grocery store
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