Study Guide

Water for Elephants Characters

Jacob is working overtime as the narrator of Water for Elephants. Younger Jacob and older Jacob...

Marlena is gutsy and beautiful: what a combination. She seems pretty modern for a woman of the...

[Spoiler alert! Don't say we didn't warn you.]Rosie is good-natured and lovable. She's loyal,...

August is a classic antagonist. He's the straight-up villain of Water for Elephants. He's a...

Uncle Al is the classic circus impresario: "He has ringmaster written all over him, from the...

Rosemary is Jacob's favorite nurse at the retirement home and the only one who really treats him...

Walter starts out as Jacob's enemy and ends up as his friend. (Aw.) The path is somewhat arduous...

Camel is one of the first people Jacob meets at the circus and one of the first to be kind to...

Charlie enters the book in the second-to-last chapter and plays a small but pivotal role. Aside...

Aside from August, Marlena, Al, Camel, and Walter, the other people who work at the circus sort...

McGuinty is a minor character who appears early on in the book. He is mainly important because of...

Jacob's children are practically nonexistent, and maybe that's the point. They have abandoned him...

Catherine is a woman at Jacob's veterinary school who teases and flirts with him. He desires her...

Jacob's parents loved him deeply and sacrificed a great deal for him. They mortgaged their house...

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