Characters
- Gordon Comstock – a 'well-educated and reasonably intelligent' young man possessed of a minor 'talent for writing'.
- Rosemary Waterlow – Comstock's girlfriend, whom he met at the advertising agency, but about whom little is revealed.
- Philip Ravelston – the wealthy left-wing publisher, editor of Antichrist, who supports and encourages Comstock.
- Julia Comstock – Gordon's sister who is as poor as he and who, having always made sacrifices for him, continues to do so. "A tall, ungainly girl her nature was simple and affectionate."
- Mrs. Wisbeach – lodging house landlady at Willowbed Road who imposes strict rules on her tenants.
- Mr. Flaxman – fellow lodger, a salesman, travelling representative of the Queen of Sheba Toilet Requisites Co., temporarily separated from his wife.
- Mr. McKechnie – the lazy Scot who owns the first bookshop, white-haired and white-bearded, a teetotaler and snuff taker.
- Mr. Cheeseman – sinister and suspicious owner of the second book shop.
- Mr. Erskine - a large, slow-moving man with a broad, healthy, expressionless face - managing director of the advertising agency, the New Albion Publicity Company - he promotes Gordon to a position as an advertising copy writer.
- The aspidistra - Herald of a middle class, settled lifestyle.
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Famous quotes containing the word characters:
“Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that are written down old with all the characters of age?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga—stylized because even the most acute of them have little leeway as they play out their parts.”
—Edward Hoagland (b. 1932)
“The major men
That is different. They are characters beyond
Reality, composed thereof. They are
The fictive man created out of men.
They are men but artificial men.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)