A Simple Plan
A Simple PlanScott Smith
Characters in A Simple Plan
4 characters, main characters first.Main characters
Hank Mitchell
Narrator; a level-headed feed-store manager who talks himself into keeping the money and then into far worse.
Supporting characters
Jacob Mitchell
Hank's older brother, an unemployed, overweight loner who first finds the crashed plane.
Lou Chambers
Jacob's friend, a hard-drinking third partner in the money who becomes a source of growing danger.
Sarah Mitchell
Hank's pregnant wife, whose calm, calculating advice pushes the men toward increasingly drastic acts.