Characters
- Albert Peterson – Conrad Birdie's manager who formerly aspired to be an English teacher
- Rose "Rosie" Alvarez – Albert's secretary and long-suffering girlfriend
- Conrad Birdie – a 1950s rock and roll star a la Elvis Presley
- Kim MacAfee – a teenage girl who is chosen to receive the 'one last kiss' from Conrad Birdie
- Mr. MacAfee – Kim and Randolph's befuddled father
- Mrs. MacAfee – Kim and Randolph's mother
- Randolph MacAfee – Kim's well-behaved younger brother
- Hugo Peabody – Kim's boyfriend or "steady" who is quite jealous of Conrad
- Mae Peterson – Albert's overbearing and prejudiced mother
- Ursula Merkle – Kim's hyperactive best friend, a Conrad Birdie enthusiast
- Gloria Rasputin – a curvaceous blond Mae hopes will entice Albert away from Rosie
- The Mayor – the mayor of Sweet Apple
- The Mayor's Wife – his repressed wife
- Ed Sullivan – the host of the Ed Sullivan Show; an unseen character
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“Thus we may define the real as that whose characters are independent of what anybody may think them to be.”
—Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914)
“Of all the characters I have known, perhaps Walden wears best, and best preserves its purity. Many men have been likened to it, but few deserve that honor. Though the woodchoppers have laid bare first this shore and then that, and the Irish have built their sties by it, and the railroad has infringed on its border, and the ice-men have skimmed it once, it is itself unchanged, the same water which my youthful eyes fell on; all the change is in me.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Hemingway was a prisoner of his style. No one can talk like the characters in Hemingway except the characters in Hemingway. His style in the wildest sense finally killed him.”
—William Burroughs (b. 1914)