A Frolic of His Own | Teaching Key Figures

Character Descriptions

This section provides a short description of all the major characters in the book. This can be printed out as a study guide for students, used as a "key" for leading a class discussion, or you can jump to the quiz/homework section to find worksheets that incorporate these descriptions into a variety of question formats.

Characters

Oscar Crease - The novels' protagonist is a stubborn, argumentative, and paranoid college teacher, writer, lecturer and legal devote.

Thomas L. Crease - This character is the protagonist's 90-year-old courtly father, still serving on the federal bench and looking for promotion to the circuit court. This character issues an unpopular opinion in the case of "Szyrk v. Village of Tatamount et al," has it overturned and is assigned a second round of litigation, which ends in his overturning a jury verdict and being burned in effigy.

Christina (Teen) Crease Lutz - This character...
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