Goblin Market | 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

Lizzie in Goblin Market - This character resists the temptations of strange and malicious masculine creatures.

Laura in Goblin Market - This character gives in to the temptations of strange and malicious masculine creatures.

Goblins in Goblin Market - These characters are strange and malicious masculine creatures.

Jeanie in Goblin Market - This character previously gave in to the temptations of strange and malicious masculine creatures and subsequently died.

Cousin Kate in Cousin Kate - This character, who appears good and pure, betrays the speaker of the poem, a relative, by marrying the...
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