Empire Falls | 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

C.B. Whiting - Fourth generation male heir to the Whiting fortune, this character is ill suited to assume a leadership role in the essential ownership of the inland Maine town of Empire Falls.

Francine Whiting - Her maiden name was Robideaux, and the blighted area that C.B. purchased and blasted into non-existence belonged to her family and was known by the locals as The Robideaux blight.

Miles Roby - He is the central contemporary character and, for the most part, a naive observer of the demise of Empire Falls from its position...
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