Characters from A Scanner Darkly

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

Robert Arctor - He serves as an undercover narcotics agent. When he is undercover, he dresses, talks, and feels like a hippie. He tells his friends that he works at the Blue Chip Redemption Stamp Center in Placentia.

Charles Freck - He is a drug addict who feels a deep sadness for the effects that drugs have had on him. He mourns for all of the users like himself who have messed up their lives with drugs

Jerry Fabin - After damaging his brain with the drug, Substance D, he starts to believe...
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