Out of Africa | Characters

True to the role of storyteller, Dinesen remains objective and unemotional when relating her relationship with the characters in this novel. However, because she had so many relationships with so many characters, one must choose the more outstanding ones to discuss: Denys Finch- Hatton, Berkeley Cole, the Kikuyu Kamante, and Farah Aden, and the Kikuyu natives.

Dinesen's lover and closest friend, Denys Finch-Hatton, and his friend Berkeley Cole hold major parts in the novel. Denys, an English safari hunter, came to live with her after Dinesen divorced her Danish husband. Denys and Dinesen...

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