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08/02/2010

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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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Twain, Huckleberry Finn
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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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Gilman, Herland
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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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Maggie, Jimmy, Pete
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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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Frank Norris, McTeague
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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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Willa Cather, My Antonia
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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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Susan Glaspell, Trifles
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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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Nella Larsen, Passing
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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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1939/40
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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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Peter, Jerry
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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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Tralala, Harry,
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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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Billy Pilgrim
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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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Tyrone Slothrop
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Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior
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Maxine, "No Name" Woman
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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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Esperanza,
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Don DeLillo, White Noise
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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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Toni Morrison, Beloved
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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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Don DeLillo, Falling Man
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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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Sam Shepard, True West
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Austin (Hollywood writer), Lee (drifter), Mom,
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August Wilson, Fences
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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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Li'l Bit, Uncle Peck
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