Dec 30, 2009

The Best Girlfriend You Never Had | Characters

Bill
Bill is the person who mugs Leo, forcing him to drive to a Safeway and withdraw money from an automatic teller machine. Suffering from a gunshot wound, Bill makes Leo swear that he will telephone Bill’s girlfriend to tell her Bill is all right. This mugger and his girlfriend play a role in Lucy’s imagination, as Lucy wonders ‘‘what it was about her that made her stay with a man who ran from the law for a living.’’ Lucy never meets Bill, but hears about him often, as Leo likes to recount the story of his mugging.

Gordon
Gordon is Lucy’s...