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Book cover of Gerald's Game
Gerald's GameStephen King

Characters in Gerald's Game

6 characters, main characters first.

Main characters

  • Jessie Burlingame

    A wife left handcuffed to a bed in a remote lake house, forced to face her past to survive.

Antagonists

  • Raymond Andrew Joubert

    The gaunt night visitor Jessie calls the Space Cowboy, who she cannot tell is real.

Supporting characters

  • Gerald Burlingame

    Jessie's husband, a lawyer whose bedroom game sets the ordeal in motion.

  • Nora Callighan

    Jessie's friend and former counsellor, whose voice Jessie hears while trapped.

  • Ruth Neary

    An inner voice Jessie conjures, drawn from a college friend.