Characters
- Marian MacAlpin is the protagonist, and the first-person narrator during Part One and Part Three of the novel.
- Ainsley Tewce is Marian's roommate.
- Peter Wollander is Marian's boyfriend, and later, fiancé.
- Len Slank is a bachelor friend of Marian's from college.
- Clara Bates is another friend from college; Clara drops out second year to marry Joe and has 3 children
- Duncan is a graduate student with whom Marian has an affair.
- Lucy is one of three "office virgins"
- Emmy is one of three "office virgins"
- Millie is one of three "office virgins"
- Mrs. Bogue
- Fischer Smythe is one of Duncan's roommate.
- The Landlady is Marian and Ainsley's land lord, alligorically representing traditional female ideals.
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