The Monkey's Paw | Characters

Father
See Mr. White

Morris
See Sergeant-Major Morris

Sergeant-Major Morris
Sergeant-Major Morris is the catalyst for the story: he brings the monkey's paw to the Whites' home. He is "a tall, burly man, beady of eye and rubicund of visage," whose eyes get brighter after his third glass of whiskey at the Whites' hearth. Morris is both familiar and exotic. Morris and Mr. White began their lives in approximately the same way; Mr. White remembers his friend as ''a slip of a youth in the warehouse," But in his twenty-one years of travel and...



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