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
Read more about this topic: Buried Child
Famous quotes containing the word characters:
“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)
“There are as many characters in men
As there are shapes in nature.”
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
“To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has “never had a chance, poor devil,” you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.”
—Margot Asquith (1864–1945)