Red | Characters
There are four main characters in Somerset Maugham's short story "Red": Neilson, the narrator, also called "The Swede;" Red, a dashing young man who came to this island in the South Pacific twenty-five years ago; Sally, a native woman who loved and was abandoned by Red, and whom Neilson wanted to love after Red's departure; and "the skipper," whose identity is revealed at the end of the story as Red twenty-five years later. Neither Neilson nor Sally recognizes that the older skipper is Red, which sets up many opportunities for ironic twists.
As Neilson tells "the skipper" the...
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