The God of Small Things
Characters in The God of Small Things
7 characters, main characters first.Main characters
Rahel Ipe
The younger twin, a watchful and impulsive girl who drifts through an aimless adulthood in America before returning to Ayemenem.
Estha Ipe
Esthappen Yako, the elder twin by eighteen minutes; a serious, nervous boy whose childhood trauma leaves him silent as an adult.
Velutha
A Paravan (untouchable) carpenter who maintains the machines at the family's pickle factory and is quietly involved in the local Communist movement.
Antagonists
Baby Kochamma
Navomi Ipe, the twins' embittered great-aunt, a Syrian Christian whose jealousy of Ammu turns to open malice.
Supporting characters
Ammu Ipe
The twins' mother, a strong-willed divorcee whose standing in her family's house is precarious and whose choices set the novel's tragedy in motion.
Chacko Ipe
Ammu's brother, an Oxford-educated Anglophile and former Rhodes Scholar who runs the family's pickle business.
Sophie Mol
Chacko and Margaret Kochamma's English daughter, whose 1969 visit to Ayemenem is the hinge the novel turns on.