Study Guide

Go Tell It on the Mountain Characters

By James Baldwin

Heeere's Johnny! John's a fourteen-year-old African-American kid who lives in Harlem with his...

Gabriel Grimes shows up in the novel first as a mad Daddy, a hard-working preacher who rules his...

Elizabeth Grimes is Gabriel's wife, and John, Roy, Sarah and Ruth's mother. She's a friend and...

Florence, Gabriel's sister, is a real tough cookie. She doesn't put up with any nonsense and is...

Boo! There are a couple of ghostly characters haunting this novel, and Deborah is one of them....

Elizabeth and Gabriel's other children don't play as big a part in the novel as John. Roy Grimes,...

Esther's the girl who works with Gabriel and who ends up pregnant with his child. She's sort of a...

Esther's son, Royal, is the unrecognized son of Gabriel. He grows up without a mother or father...

For both Florence and Elizabeth, moving north means L-O-V-E. Frank, Florence's husband, turns out...

The Temple of the Fire Baptized, in Harlem, is full of interesting characters. Father James, the...