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Bernice Bishop - This character works as a social worker.

Lucette Carmody - This character is eleven or twelve and preaches at the Christian revival meeting.

Meeks - This character is a copper flue salesman who claims to love the people to whom he sells.

Buford Munson - This character performs a burial after coming looking for alcohol.

Luella Munson - This character works as an in-home child caretaker.

Bishop Rayber - This character is mentally disabled and several people try to baptize him.

George Rayber - This character is a schoolteacher and rejects spirituality.

The Stranger/The Friend - This is the "inner voice" that steers Tarwater throughout the novel.

Francis Marion Tarwater - This character is a teenager who is driven to baptize his cousin.

Mason Tarwater - This character considers himself to be a prophet and spiritual guide who kidnapped his great-nephew.

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