Guilt | 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

Mark Dooher - He is a self-confident lawyer who has begun having trouble sleeping, which is a problem his wife is caused by having an empty nest where the last of their three children has left home.

Wes Farrells - He is retained by a friend as the friend's attorney when the friend begins to realize that police may be focusing on him as a suspect in a murder.

Christina Carrera - She is an up-and-coming young attorney who intrigues the man who hires her and wishes to have an affair with her.