Troubles (novel) - Characters

Characters

• Major Brendan Archer – ex Army Officer and fiancee of Angela Spencer. Archer also appears in Farrell's later novel The Singapore Grip.
• Edward Spencer – owner of the Majestic hotel, his mental decline echoes the physical decline of the hotel itself and also the violence in Ireland.
• Angela Spencer – daughter of Edward Spencer.
• Sarah Devlin – a girl the Major meets early in the novel and after Angela's death becomes increasingly obsessed with. Apparently disabled in the early parts of the novel.
• Charity and Faith – young girls at the start of the novel, they develop into young women. Often depicted as coy and naive.

Other characters include:

• The old ladies staying at the hotel.
• Various servants of the hotel including Sean Murphy, a somewhat suspect groundsman.
• The inhabitants of Kilnalough, the village near to the hotel, including Sarah's father, a doctor, a priest and others.