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The Cat in the Hat
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The Cat in the Hat Characters
Meet the Cast
The Cat in the Hat
No offense Garfield, Felix, Tom, CatDog, Sylvester, Hello Kitty, Top Cat, and Simba (how'd we do?), but The Cat in the Hat is the only one who can come over and make a mess at our place. Why? Becau...
The Boy
The boy in The Cat in the Hat is one of the most famous unnamed narrators in literary history. He's right up there with Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man and a number of creepy Edgar Allan Poe narrator...
Sally
Sally is the strong, silent type. Since she doesn't talk, her facial expressions are the biggest clues we have to how she feels about the whole fiasco. And you know what? That facial expression doe...
The Fish
Ah, the curmudgeonly fish.The fish could be Dr. Seuss's take on Spot, the dog in the Dick and Jane series that Seuss is challenging with The Cat in the Hat. Think about it. At first, we are present...
Thing One and Thing Two
Isn't there a little Thing One and Thing Two inside us all? These crazy guys represent all that restless energy we have to suppress so we don't get in trouble. They are pure mayhem with no sense of...
The Mother
Mother is a mighty figure The Cat in The Hat. She and only she has influence over the Cat. And now that we think about it, they might even be in cahoots. After all, we don't know where Mother or th...