Six Characters in Search of an Author

by Luigi Pirandello

Six Characters in Search of an Author: Characters


Amalia
See The Mother

The Director
See The Producer

The Father
The Father is the leading spokesperson for the six "characters " He is the biological father of the 22 year-old son he had with the Mother, and he is the stepfather of the three children the Mother had during her relationship with the Father's secretary. In his "Preface" to Six Characters in Search of an Author, Pirandello describes the Father as "a man of about fifty, in black coat, light trousers, his eyebrows drawn into a painful...

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