Study Guide

Room Characters

By Emma Donoghue

Jack is five years old. He was born in Room and raised in Room. It comes as quite a shock when he...

Ma is twenty-seven. We never learn her real name, and Jack only calls her Ma. Kidnapped by Old...

For the first two half of Room, the only characters we meet are Jack, Ma, and Old Nick. Old Nick...

Grandma is Ma's (adopted) ma. She believed her daughter had run away, but she always held out...

Paul is Ma's brother. Since she disappeared, he's married Deana and together they've had a young...

Ma's dad, whom we only know as Grandpa, has a more difficult time dealing with his daughter's...

Dr. Clay is the doctor who helps Ma and Jack readjust (or, in Jack's case, adjust for the first...

Jack encounters a few more people who are named but who are not really developed as characters....