Dec 26, 2009

Dandelion Wine | Characters

Lena Auffmann

Lena Auffmann is married to Leo Auffmann and is the mother of their six children. She attempts to stop her husband from building the Happiness Machine and continues to be the voice of reason throughout the stories about the Machine. She tells Leo that he has made two mistakes with the machine: “You made quick things go slow and stay around. You brought things faraway to our backyard, where they don’t belong. . . .”

Leo Auffmann

Leo Auffmann is the Green Town inventor. One evening when Douglas casually tells him to...