The Rocking-Horse Winner | 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

Paul - This character is a young child haunted by his family's lack of money.

Mother - This character is a beautiful woman who married for love and quickly found both her husband and her new life a huge disappointment.

Uncle Oscar - This character guesses the winners at a horse race and wins thousands of pounds.

Basset - This character is the young gardener who bets and wins on the horses.

Father - This character has experienced nothing but bad luck since he got married.

Joan - This sister objects to the...
(read more)