Meet the Cast
The Narrator
Our narrator is such a wreck, it's hard not to feel sorry for him. He's nervous ("very dreadfully nervous"), paranoid, and physically and mentally ill. He doesn't know the difference between the "r...
The Old Man
The old man is even more of a mystery than the narrator, partly because we only see him through the narrator's skewed perspective. We know he has money (the narrator shows the old man's "treasures"...
The Three Policemen
The three policemen don't really have any characteristics. Yet, they play a major role in driving the plot of the narrator's story, so we should at least consider them. They seem to be conscientiou...
A Neighbor
The neighbor plays a small but important role in the narrator's story. As noted in the old man's "Character Analysis," the neighbor shows us that the narrator and/or the old man are alienated from...