Little, Big | Characters
Smokey Barnable is the central character of Little, Big, who, in the opening pages, forsakes his job checking the accuracy of names and addresses for the phone company and sets off on foot to Edgewood where he will marry Daily Alice Drinkwater and thereby associate himself with the shadowy fairy Tale. Smokey believes himself to be a person without character, and only after his marriage to Daily Alice does he come to realize he has acquired one. His marriage has given him entrance into the master plot of the fairy world, and his new character is a kind of gift. Never able to see...
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