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Study Guide
Bastard Out of Carolina Characters
By Dorothy Allison
Bone Boatwright
Sometimes she just feels like a motherless child.Oh, wait. That's Boney M. not Bone Boatwright....
Anney Boatwright
Talk about ambivalence. It can be hard to tell what to make of Anney. Everything we know about...
Glen Waddell
Glen, Bone's stepfather and her abuser, sure doesn't do much to earn our sympathy. There aren't...
The Boatwrights
Alma is one of Bone's aunts, and she's maybe the most mom-like of them all. Whenever we see Alma,...
Other Characters
Bodine is Glen's dairy-owning father and your typical emotionally-elusive father figure who is...