Plot Summary
Anna Christie is the story of a former prostitute who falls in love, but runs into difficulty in turning her life around.
- Characters
- Johnny the Priest
- Two longshoremen
- A postman
- Larry - bartender
- Chris C. Christopherson - captain of the barge Simeon Winthrop
- Marthy Owen
- Anna Christopherson - Chris’s daughter
- Mat Burke - a stoker
- Johnson - deckhand on barge
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