The Crash
The CrashFreida McFadden
Characters in The Crash
4 characters, main characters first.Main characters
Tegan Werner
Twenty-three-year-old supermarket worker, eight months pregnant, who crashes in a Maine blizzard while driving to her brother Dennis; one of the novel's two first-person narrators.
Antagonists
Polly (The Crash)
Hank's wife, a former nurse, who settles Tegan in a basement sickroom originally built for her own now-deceased mother. The novel's second first-person narrator.
Hank (The Crash)
Hank Thompson, the hulking stranger who pulls Tegan from the wreck and drives her to his isolated cabin rather than to a hospital, citing hazardous road conditions.
Simon Lamar
Married real-estate developer whose drugging and rape of Tegan left her pregnant, and who has his lawyer negotiate a nondisclosure agreement to buy her silence.