To kill a Mockingbird - Characters

The narrator and protagonist of the story

• Arthur “Boo” Radley

• Jean Louise “Scout” Finch

• Jeremy “Jem” Finch

• Tom Robinson

Scout and Jem’s father, a lawyer in Maycomb descended from an old local family

• Bob Ewell

• Heck Tate

• Nathan Radley

• Atticus Finch

Scout’s brother and constant playmate at the beginning of the story.

• Charles Baker “Dill” Harris

• Walter Cunningham

• Jeremy “Jem” Finch

• Calpurnia

A recluse who never sets foot outside his house, he dominates the imaginations of Jem, Scout, and Dill.

• Arthur “Boo” Radley

• Nathan Radley

• Dolphus Raymond

• Atticus Finch

A drunken, mostly unemployed member of Maycomb’s poorest family.

• Tom Robinson

• Bob Ewell

• Atticus Finch

• Dolphus Raymond

Jem and Scout’s summer neighbor and friend.

• Miss Maudie Atkinson

• Nathan Radley

• Tom Robinson

• Charles Baker “Dill” Harris

The Finches’ neighbor, a sharp-tongued widow, and an old friend of the family.

• Miss Maudie Atkinson

• Aunt Alexandra

• Mrs. Dubose

• MS. Stephanie

A. The Finches’ black cook. A stern disciplinarian and the children’s bridge between the white world and her own black community.

• Dolphus Raymond

• Ms. Rachael

• Calpurnia

• Ms. Stephanie

Bob Ewell’s abused, lonely, unhappy daughter.

• Mayella Ewell

• Stephanie Ewell

• Sabrina Ewell

• Jane Ewell

A wealthy white man who lives with his black mistress and mulatto children.

• Heck Tate

• Dolphus Raymond

• Atticus Finch

• Jem finch