Ellen (Granny) Weatherall
An 80-year-old woman, who being at her deathbed is ruminating about her life. She is somehow disoriented and weak because of the illness. Memories from past haunts her and make her pain. She has four children she has raised by herself, because her husband had died long time ago. As to her personality we may say she is rather harsh and direct, which must be a mark of the hardships she had experienced.
Cornelia
Granny’s daughter, who takes care of her. It is Cornelia’s house where the granny passes away. Granny herself says that Cornelia is too dutiful.
George
Man who had stoop granny up on the day he was to marry her.
John
Deceased husband of granny.
Doctor Harry
Granny's doctor. Thus she considers him a schoolboy and does not accept his seriously he does his best to help her to meet death painlessly.
Hapsy
Granny’s daughter, and it seems that she is not alive.
Jimmy
Granny’s son.
Lydia
Another of granny’s daughters.
Father Connolly
Roman Catholic priest who comes to give Granny the church's last rites.
