Kew Gardens Characters

This is the first character that we are introduced to. He goes unnamed throughout the story, so we'll just call him "the married man" from now on. His "married-ness" is an important attribute: he a...

Eleanor, the wife of "the married man," walks slightly behind her husband through the garden and turns every now and then to check on her children, Hubert and Caroline. Everything we know about her...

William accompanies an older, senile man through the garden, and though he never speaks in the story, we still get a pretty good idea of his character. For instance, he's really patient—Woolf let...

Yay for crazy old people. This guy is one of our favorite characters. Unlike William, the old man talks "incessantly" about everything from the spirits of the dead to the forests of Uruguay, and ev...

This unnamed woman, described as "stout and ponderous" (15) and "of the lower middle class" (15) appears with a female companion. Both women are fascinated by the old man's eccentric behavior, espe...

There's not much to say about this one. She is characterized as "rosy cheeked and nimble" (15) and shares many features with the stout woman. She is also of the working class and is fascinated by e...

This fellow appears in the company of the young woman, Trissie, and the emphasis in his characterization is primarily on his youth, making him a distinct contrast to the old man and married man. Th...

Trissie, like the young man, is a figure in the "prime of youth" (19). She's also anxious and awkward in her interactions, but at the same time, really, really excited to be with this cute guy in t...