Play with a Tiger | 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

Anna Freeman - This character is the main character of PLAY WITH A TIGER. Over the course of the play's action, she explains to her fiancé that she will not marry him, watches another man she is close to realize that he has been trapped into marriage, and interacts with a friend and with the woman from whom she is renting two rooms.

Mary Jackson - This character owns the house in which Anna lives and rents rooms for herself and her child. She is lonely, craving male companionship but finding that men...
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