Cold Comfort Farm | 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

Flora Poste - This character is modeled after heroines of fiction, particularly of Jane Austen, to whom this character compares herself.

Aunta Ada Doom - This character is the matriarch of the Starkadder clan.

Elfine Starkadder - Tall with blue eyes, this character is Amos and Judith's only daughter, age seventeen.

Seth Starkadder - This character is often described as having panther-like, animalistic qualities and is rugged and handsome.

Reuben Starkadder - This character is Amos and Judith's oldest son who loves the farm more than anyone else in the family but worries...
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