Dec 22, 2009

The Lynchers | Characters

The four conspirators in the plan constitute the main cluster of characters in The Lynchers, although they are ringed by lovers, family, and community members. Littleman, Wilkerson, Saunders, and Rice form an uneasy alliance based not on friendship but on need, brought together by Littleman and unable to maintain coherence after he cannot participate.

Littleman is the orchestrator of the plan. A cripple, he uses his cane and his tongue with equal fervor. He seems rational early in the book, an intellectual, a radical, a man obsessed with issues of race and class, but an...