The Education of Henry Adams | 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

Mrs. Louisa Catherine Adams - This character was an ideal wife among the European and American elite, but fails as a Bostonian wife.

Mrs. Abigail Adams - This character was represented as the ideal eighteenth-century woman.

Brooks Adams - This character attended law school and thought that the relation between civilizations was trade.

Henry Brooks Adams - This character attempts to discuss what parts of education are useful. He ends up finding formal education to be a waste of time and the building blocks of life to be knowledge of languages and...
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