The Circle Characters

Our main character is named Meh. Wait, we mean she's named Maybe. Wait, she's actually named Mae.Right. Mae.We got a little confused because Mae doesn't give us a whole lot to work with. The truth...

Blond, beautiful, ambitious, and consummately good at what she does, Annie Allerton is the Elle Woods of The Circle. She's also Mae Holland's very best friend—or she is until their friendship sta...

Here be spoilers, Shmoopers. Read with caution.Tyler Alexander Gospodinov is known to most of the world as Ty. Thanks to his Bruce Wayne-y commitment to secrecy, though, Mae Holland knows him as Ka...

Eamon Bailey is one of the Circle's Three Wise Men, and he's by far the most prolific and the best loved of the three. Hired by Ty Gospodinov in the very early days of the company, Bailey is the pu...

Mercer Medeiros gets a lot of flak in The Circle, but that's only because the novel's third-person, limited-omniscient narrator sees so much of the world through Mae Holland's eyes. Whereas Mae des...

Despite the fact that Mae Holland is misguided, naïve, and the architect of some truly terrible decisions with far-reaching consequences, we still don't think that she deserves to end up with Fran...

Mae Holland's parents are sweet, kind, and supportive. In fact, they're so even-keeled that it's hard not to imagine them stepping out of a suburban sitcom from the 1950s—one where the height of...

Tom Stenton may well be The Circle's least complicated character. He's rich, greedy, and hungry for power, and he'll get behind any Circle technology that promises to make a buck.When Mae Holland e...

Alistair KnightAlistair Knight is one of Mae Holland's many coworkers at the Circle, and he's the cause of Mae's first truly tense experience at the company. After inviting Mae to a Portugal-themed...