Protagonist

Character Role Analysis

Hally (with reservations)

Hally gets first billing in the title as "Master Harold," and is the character who undergoes the biggest change over the course of the play. He starts off as a fairly friendly and likeable teenager and transforms before our eyes into a pretty nasty adult, imposing his will and his racist attitudes on his lifelong friends. It's unusual for a protagonist to be this unsympathetic; we could call him an anti-hero because we hope against hope that he'll come to his senses. Fugard spends most of his time showing us Hally's character, so he'll get a vote for protagonist.