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| Henry James, Daisy Miller |
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| Daisy, Winterbourne, Mrs. Walker |
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| Howells, The Rise of Silas Lapham |
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| Silas Lapham, Penelope & Irene (daughters), Tom Corey, |
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| Huck Finn, Jim, Tom Sawyer, he Kindg, the Duke |
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| Twain, Connecticut Yankee |
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| Hank, Clarence (the page) |
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| Vandyck (narrator), married to Ellador, Terry (overly masculine), married to Alima, Jeff (overly feminine), married to Celis |
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| Stephen Crane, Maggie: Girl of the Streets |
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| Stephen Crane, "The Open Boat" |
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| The correspondant, Billie the Oiler, the Captain, the Cook |
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| Mary Wilkins Freeman, Pembroke |
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| Charlotte Barnard (female lead), Cephas Barnard, Barney Thayer (Charlotte's betrothed), Rose and Rebecca are her foils |
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| Sarah Orne Jewett, The Country of Pointed Firs |
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| narrator, Mrs. Todd, Joanna Todd |
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| McTeague (Irish American), Trina McTeague, Marcus Schouler, Zerkow |
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| Kate Chopin, The Awakening |
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| Edna Pontellier, Robert Lebrun, Adele Ratignolle |
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| Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie |
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| Carrie, Hurstwood, Drouet |
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| Charles W. Chesnutt, The Marrow of Tradition |
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| Major Carteret, Olivia Carteret, Dr. Miller, Janet Miller, McBane |
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| Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth |
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| Lily Bart, Lawrence Selden, Simon Rosedale (the Jewish social climber) |
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| Antonia Shimerda, Jim Burden, Tiny, Lena, Anton Cusak (Antonia's eventual husband) Antonia's many children |
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| Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg Ohio |
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| George Willard, Helen White, Alice Hindman, Ned Currie, |
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| Mrs. Hale, Mrs. Peters (the Sheriff's wife), Lewis Hale (neighboring farmer), Henry Peters, Mrs. Wright (the murderess of her husband) |
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| Willa Cather, A Lost Lady |
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| Marian Forrester, Captain Daniel Forrester, Niel Herbert (narrator), Ivy Peters, Adolph Blum (the German immigrant) |
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| Anzia Yezierska, Bread Givers |
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| Sara Smolinsky, Reb Smolinsky, Hugo Seelig, Mashah, Bessie, Fania (Sara's three sisters),Shenah |
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| John Dos Passos, Manhattan Transfer |
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| Jimmy Herf, Ellen Thatcher, Anna Cohen, |
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| F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby |
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| Jay Gatsby, Nick Carraway, Daisy (Faye) Buchanan, Tom Buchanan, Jordan Baker, Myrtle Wilson, Wolfsheim |
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| Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises |
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| Jake Barnes, Brett Ashley, Robert Cohn |
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| Irene (committed to racial uplift, marries a black doctor), Clare (passes) |
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| William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury |
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| Caddie, Jason Compson, Quentin Compson (I and II), Benjy Compson, |
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| William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom |
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| Thomas Sutpen, Quentin Compson, Rosa Coldfield, Charles Bon, Henry Sutpen, Judith Sutpen |
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| Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God |
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| Janie Crawford, Tea Cake, Logan Killicks and Joe Starks (first and second husbands) |
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| John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath |
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| Tom Joad, Ma Joad, Jim Casy (former preacher), Rose of Sharon Peters, |
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| Pietro do Donato, Christ in Concrete |
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| Paul, Annunziata (mother), |
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| Nathanael West, The Day of the Locust |
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| Tod Hackett, Faye Greener, Homer Simpson |
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| Richard Wright, Native Son |
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| Bigger Thomas, Mary Dalton (daughter of the Daltons), Bessie (his girlfriend), Jan (Mary's boyfriend), Boris Max (Communist lawyer) |
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| Eugene O'Neill, The Hairy Ape |
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| Yank, Long (the Marxist), Mildred Douglas (rich girl), Ape |
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| Lillian Hellman, The Children's Hour |
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| Karen Wright, Martha Dobie, Lily (Martha's aunt), Joe Bardin (Karen's fiancee and Martha's cousin), Mary Tilford |
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| Lillian Hellman, The Little Foxes |
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| Benjamin and Oscar Hubbard (old brothers), Birdie (incompetent Southern belle), Regina Hubbard Giddens, Horace Giddens, Alexandra Giddens, William Marshall (northerner businessman) |
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| Eugene O'Neill, The Iceman Cometh |
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| Eugene O'Neill, Long Day's Journey into Night |
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| James Tyrone, Mary Tyrone, James Tyrone, Edmund Tyrone (follower of Nietzsche), Eugene Tyrone (died at two) |
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| Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman |
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| Willy Loman, Linda Loman, Biff Loman, Happy Loman |
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| Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie |
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| Tom Wingfield, Laura, Amanda, Jim O'Connor |
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| Arthur Miller, The Crucible |
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| Abigail (the female enemy), John Proctor (martyr), Elizabeth Proctor, Tituba (Parris's Slave) |
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| Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
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| Brick, Maggie (married), Skipper (committed suicide), Big Daddy |
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| Edward Albee, The Zoo Story |
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| Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun |
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| Walter Lee Younger, Lena "Mama" Younger, Ruth, Beneatha, |
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| Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
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| "Chief" Bromden, McMurphy, Nurse Ratched |
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| Hubert Selby Jr., Last Exit to Brooklyn |
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| Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49 |
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| Oedipa Maas, Pierce Inverarity, Mucho Maas, Metzger, Trystero |
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| Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five |
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| E.L. Doctorow, The Book of Daniel |
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| siblings Daniel and Susan Isaacson, parents Paul and Rochelle |
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| Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow |
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| Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior |
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| Toni Morrison, The Song of Solomon |
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| Milkman Dead, Pilate, Guitar Bains, Hagar, Shalimar, |
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| Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony |
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| Tayo (hybrid of White-Indian), Rocky (Indian, killed in WW2, tried to adopt only white values), Montano woman, Auntie |
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| Tim O'Brien, Going After Cacciato |
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| Paul Berlin, Sarkin Aung Wan |
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| Sandra Cisneros, The House on Mango Street |
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| Jack and Babette Gladney, Murray Jay Siskind |
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| Paul Auster, City of Glass |
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| Daniel Quinn, William Wilson (his novelist name), Paul Auster, Peter Stillman |
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| Sethe, Paul D., Denver, Beloved, Baby Suggs, Schoolteacher |
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| Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club |
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| Suyuan Woo, daughter June, AnMei Hsu, daughter Rose, Lindo Jong, daughter Waverly, Ying Ying (Betty) St. Clair, daughter Lena |
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| Bharati Mukherjee, Jasmine |
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| Jasmine, Half-Face (rapist--she kills in Kali persona), Du (her adopted son from Vietnam) |
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| Tim O'Brien, In the Lake of the Woods |
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| John and Kathy Wade, General Sherman and the Sioux, American Revolution with British w/ Indian tactics |
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| Michelle Cliff, No Telephone to Heaven |
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| Clare Savage, Harry/Harriet, Christopher (kills Paul H's family) |
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| Chang Rae-Lee, Native Speaker |
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| Henry Park (Korean American-a spy because of his hybrid identity), Leila, |
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| Keith, Lianne, Justin Neudecker, the Falling Man/David Janiak, Bill Lawton (bin Laden), |
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| Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolff? |
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| George, Martha, Nick, Honey, George and Martha's dead son |
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| Sam Shepard, Buried Child |
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| Dodge (patriarch), Halie (wife of Dodge), Tilden (has sex with his mother, son buried), Vince (son), Shellie (Vince's girlfriend) |
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| Austin (Hollywood writer), Lee (drifter), Mom, |
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| Troy Maxson, Rose Maxson, Cory Maxson (child with Rose), Jim Bono, Gabriel, Lyons (Troy's first child), Raynell (last child) |
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| August Wilson, The Piano Lesson |
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| Doaker (their uncle), Boy Willie, Berneice, the Sutters (whites who first owned the piano) |
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| Tony Kushner, Angels in America |
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| Joe Pitt, Mother Pitt, Roy Cohn, Ethel Rosenberg, Harper Pitt, Prior Walter, Louis Ironson, The Angel |
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| Paula Vogel, How I Learned to Drive |
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