Holly is one of those literary characters that academic folks love to talk about since she isn't as cut and dried as she initially appears. She might first seem like a party girl with no substance,...

Although we never learn the narrator's real name, he's still central to the novel, more for what he tells us about Holly than for what he tells us about himself. In fact, we actually learn very lit...

Fred, Holly's brother, and Doc, the man who took her and Fred in as children and who she's married to, are pretty minor characters when it comes to actual action in the story (in fact, we never act...

Joe's a pretty interesting guy in that he's kind of gruff and rough around the edges, but he's also a big softie when it comes to Holly and he offers her (dare we say it?) a sense of unconditional...