Characters
- Eliza Naumann – a young girl, an entrant in the national spelling bee.
- Saul Naumann – Eliza's father, cantor in the Beth Amicha synagogue and student of the scriptures.
- Miriam Naumann – Eliza's mother, who is obsessive-compulsive and a kleptomaniac.
- Aaron Naumann – Eliza's brother, who loses the Jewish faith and goes on to become a "Hare Krishna".
Read more about this topic: Bee Season
Famous quotes containing the word characters:
“Of the other characters in the book there is, likewise, little to say. The most endearing one is obviously the old Captain Maksim Maksimich, stolid, gruff, naively poetical, matter-of- fact, simple-hearted, and completely neurotic.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (18991977)
“No author has created with less emphasis such pathetic characters as Chekhov has....”
—Vladimir Nabokov (18991977)
“Thus we may define the real as that whose characters are independent of what anybody may think them to be.”
—Charles Sanders Peirce (18391914)
Related Phrases
Related Words