The Reivers Characters

When your last name is Priest, it's maybe not surprising that you're a little innocent.When we meet Lucius, he's never lied to another human being before. He's basically a little angel. But it does...

"Boon didn't actually belong to us" (2.2), says Lucius. In fact, Boon Hogganbeck doesn't really belong to anyone at all. He just sort of emerges out of the woods one day when he's about twelve year...

Everyone knows someone with an annoying laugh. Well, in Lucius's story, that someone is Ned. "Hee, hee," he says after he's outwitted somebody. "Hee, hee." All the time. "Hee, hee."But Ned is more...

Miss Corrie is sort of like the Nancy character in Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist. She's a prostitute who, with the help of Lucius, discovers that she is a human being deserving of human respect—...

Aww, Boss Priest is the perfect, doting grandfather. He's kind, levelheaded, patient, and very reasonable. He's the type of guy Lucius matures into by the time he's retelling us his eleven-year-old...

Miss Reba, the owner of the Memphis brothel, is quite the opposite of every woman Lucius has met up until his arrival to the brothel. She is strong-willed, outspoken, and very direct. She clearly d...

Butch wins the award for being just about the worst guy Lucius has ever met. Otis and Mr. Binford are right up there, too, but Butch definitely takes the cake. Butch is racist, sexist, vindictive,...

Otis is not the man. He's just a scrappy-headed ten-year-old kid. In fact, he's like a version of what Butch was probably like as a kid. For Lucius, he's just another example of the kinds of bad pe...

Like Butch, Mr. Binford is sexist, racist, and corrupt. He's the grimy landowner of Miss Reba's brothel. He's disrespectful and just downright rude. He also antagonizes Boon at the dinner table and...