The Cider House Rules | Characters
In The Cider House Rules, more than any other of Irving's novels, there is a sharp demarcation between the complex, realistic — if, as usual, eccentric — characters and the purely stereotypical ones. The two central characters, Wilbur Larch, the doctor, and Homer Wells, the orphan, complement and yet contrast with each other. Both wish to "be of use," and because several attempts to place Homer in adoptive homes fail and he lives at the orphanage until he is eighteen, he assists Dr. Larch often enough to become a skilled obstetrician and ultimately returns to take over St....
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