The Red Badge of Courage Characters

Henry’s Growth, Failures, Successes, and all around Transformation"The Youth" is obviously the main character of the book, and as such appears in every scene. The novel chronicles the complet...

Jim Conklin or "the Tall Soldier" is the more experienced and mature soldier, particularly compared to Henry at the outset of the novel. He is confident enough not to brag or to claim that he would...

Wilson is a boastful, argumentative, and "I’ll do things my way" sort of guy. He is constantly arguing with the other soldiers and telling everyone his opinion about everything. Of course, th...

We don’t know much about "the Tattered Soldier," save the fact that he’s, you know, tattered. Henry meets this man in the midst of Jim’s death and shortly thereafter abandons him,...