The Night the Ghost Got In | Characters

Mr. Bodwell
Bodwell is the Thurber family’s neighbor, a retired engineer. He is ‘‘subject to mild ‘attacks,’’’ like most people whom the family knows. When the narrator’s mother throws a shoe through the Bodwells’ window and shouts to them that there are burglars in the house, Bodwell is momentarily confused, thinking that the burglars are in his house, before calming himself and calling the police.

Mrs. Bodwell
Mrs. Bodwell lives, with her husband, next door to the Thurbers. When a shoe comes through their window, before the Bodwells...


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