CHARACTERS
Lyssa
Strutter: The owner, editor and publisher of Cutting Edges, a representative
Portland’s magazine where she publishes her poems. She is divorced and has a
daughter, Hannah, 18. She is idealist and even desires change the world.
Roxana: House cynic, graphic designer
and photographer in Cutting Edges. She has a daughter, Daphne, 16.
Daphne:
Roxana’s teenager daughter
Deborah
Dobell: a successful
novelist, and a good friend of Lyssa.
Diana: Assistant
editor at Lyssa’s magazine covers Portland music scene, and she is also a
singer and a songwriter. She is dominating, with temperamental energy, and
stubborn; she has short, henna red hair, tall; she lived with Steve after
having finished her studies in Eugene, and now is going out with Geoff.
Adam Last: Professional student working on
a Ph.D. in physics and not particularly fond of commitment, he is Lilith’s
boyfriend.
Matt Mollit: a professional idealist as is
humanly possible, but he has a male ego.
Harry: a band
member.
Hannah: Lyssa’s
daughter, 18, lives in Eugene with Kate, She is rebel and always discuss with
her mother.
Kate: Hannah and Randy’s roommate, she does not
approve Randy’s moral ideas
Marty: assistant editor, despairing
parents, bushy moustache, a young version of Groucho Marx; he is divorced and has
got two daughters.
Adrian: the
Diana’s long-distance boy-friend, he lives in Seattle as a musician, he is a
handsome local rock star.
Mercy: an assistant professor in a
mediocre university, mediocre marriage with George, for the children’s sake is
her favourite excuse. She needs a wife.
George: Mercy’s
husband. He works as a vacuum cleaner repairman, and has a cynical superiority.
John: the band
drummer, all-American face, truly handsome guy, with freckles on his nose and
cheeks.
Samantha
Lee: the band
flute, a musician by hobby, journalist by profession, works in Portlandia’s TV.
Randy: Hannah
and Kate’s roommate in Eugene, he is a good cook in the era of yuppiedom got a
higher cultural level, has two girlfriends, Kate
Reilly: the band
electric bass, not timid
Rick: a lead acoustic guitar player
Myrine: works as
a self-defence teacher, Matt’s friend.
Lilyth
Lampito: a high school P.E. teacher who gives self-defence courses.
Geoff: Diana’s
former boyfriend.
Robert: a band
member
Guy: the
band’s guitar player
Dick: the
band’s drums player, his nickname is “the animal”.
The main characters that make possible the plot and the
exposition of the themes are marked in red colour.