As I didn’t finish reading the novel yet, I don’t think that it’s useful to write a complete characterization. But I want to list the most important characters and write down some information.
At first something about the characters, we get to know in the first diary entries
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Appearance |
State of mind |
Background |
Aims/Wishes |
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Narrator |
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Careless, helpless |
Grand-child of Tessie and Douglas |
Wants to retrace Olivia’s life |
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Neighbor |
Looks like a ghost, hair in one dropping plait, paper-white, vaporous, strong and ringing voice, toughended-up |
Religious, hopeless |
Has been in India for 30 years, lots of experience (has lived through a Hindu-Muslim riot, a smallpox epidemic and famines) |
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Miss Tietz |
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Swiss, came out with the Christian Sisterhood |
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The unkempt European |
Around thirty years, fair, tall, clothes in tatters, white skin, long, tangled and matted hair |
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And the characters from the second story (1923)
Olivia
· Wife of Douglas (they are married for just some months)
· Most of the time she sits at home and is bored
· She waits for Douglas to come home
· When she is together with Mrs. Crawford and Mrs. Minnies she feels like an outsider
· She enjoys to spent her time with the Nawab and Harry, because she has the feeling that they understand her
· She doesn’t want get to know India and it’s culture and tries to build up a little Britain at home
