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Book cover of Eileen
EileenOttessa Moshfegh

Characters in Eileen

6 characters, main characters first.

Main characters

  • Eileen Dunlop

    The 24-year-old narrator, a lonely secretary at Moorehead juvenile facility who dreams of escaping to New York.

Supporting characters

  • Rebecca Saint John

    The glamorous new director of education at Moorehead, whom Eileen admires.

  • Charlie Dunlop

    Eileen's alcoholic, paranoid father, a former police officer.

  • Lee Polk

    A teenage inmate at Moorehead.

  • Rita Polk

    Lee Polk's mother.

  • Randy

    A Moorehead guard on whom Eileen has a crush.