Francis also sometimes flirts with Richard. Francis is gay, and has feelings for Charles, whom he occasionally sleeps with. Francis Abernathyįrancis is a Hampden College student who studies ancient Greek in Julian's class. Bunny dies a violent death when the other students get tired of being blackmailed by him, and push him off the edge of a ravine.

Bunny is coarse, bullying, and often cruel once he knows that the other students have killed the farmer, he shamelessly blackmails and torments them. Bunny also comes from a family that has the appearance of wealth, but does not have access to any money and relies on everyone around him to subsidize his expensive lifestyle. Unlike the other students, Bunny is not a sophisticated intellectual and actually struggles with a number of learning disabilities. Bunny CorcoranĮdmund 'Bunny' Corcoran is a student who studies ancient Greek at Hampden College. He also eventually loses touch with Camilla. Charles ends up suffering from addiction for the rest of his life, and never living up to his potential. Charles has an incestuous relationship with his sister Camilla and is obsessively jealous of her when Camilla begins a romantic relationship with Henry, Charles threatens to kill him. Charles has a drinking problem which accelerates after the murder of Bunny, leading him to become violent and reckless. Charles MacauleyĬharles is a student who studies in Julian's class, and is a close friend to Bunny, Richard, Henry, and Francis. Henry has a romantic relationship with Camilla, and eventually kills himself when he knows the relationship between the group is falling apart. Henry is the one who first starts the plan to kill Bunny, and plays a significant role in covering up the crime, which shows that he might be the most cold-blooded of all of them. Even in a group of extremely intelligent students, Henry stands out for his intellect, and he is also calm, cool, and strategic.

Henry emerges as the leader of the friend group, and the individual whom Richard most admires. Henry is a student at Hampden College who also studies ancient Greek in Julian's class. At the end of the novel, Richard is resigned to spending most of his life dwelling on the past. Over the course of the novel, Richard realizes this desire for beauty, elegance, and intellectual stimulation have made him lose touch with moral principles. Richard is intelligent, sensitive, and ambitious he wants to build a different life for himself, and at first heedlessly pursues his dreams and ambitions. At the time he tells the story, he is a 28-year-old graduate student in California, but most of the action takes place when Richard is a college student in New England. Richard is the narrator and protagonist in the story.

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