The Cat Who Blew the Whistle | Characters & Character Analysis

The Cat Who Blew the Whistle Characters

Generally Braun introduces her characters with a rather sketchy physical description and allows their behavioral quirks to reveal their personality.

Three types of characters appear in her novels. Some individuals serve as background characters, reappearing in novel after novel; they constitute the community in which Qwill and the cats live. A major element in these novels' appeal is the reader's sense that these familiar characters are friends and neighbors. Most of these people have played a major or minor role in an earlier novel, then settled into a specific niche so far as Qwill and Moose County are concerned; thus, the reader comes to know them gradually, more or less as a neighbor would. Other characters are major participants in the action of a specific novel; upon their first appearance, Qwill notices their dominant physical traits and usually makes some judgments about their personality. They may reappear in...
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