Ragtime | Characters

Ragtime is famous for the number of its characters. Doctorow has borrowed a score of names from history, and added several more figures from his own imagination. The fictional characters belong to three different families who interact and ultimately become one family in the novel. At the beginning the parents of the narrator are only identified as Father and Mother. This family is a stereotype of self-satisfaction and patriotism in early twentieth-century America. Immigrants and minorities are beyond its field of vision. The second family is Tateh, Mameh, and their little girl:...

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