In the Garden of the North American Martyrs | Characters

Dr. Howells
Dr. Howells is the chairman of the department of history at the prestigious college where Louise works and where Mary is led to believe she is a job candidate. He is arrogant, detached, and pretentious. The air of entitlement and superiority with which he presents himself is undermined, however, by his appearance. Mary is able to remember his name in part because he is so strikingly ugly, with a ‘‘porous blue nose and terrible teeth.’’

Jonathan
Louise describes Jonathan as her lover. He never appears in the story. Because Louise...


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