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Book cover of The Waves
The WavesVirginia WoolfVintage Classics Woolf Series

Characters in The Waves

7 characters, main characters first.

Main characters

  • Rhoda

    The most fragile and alienated of the six friends.

  • Bernard

    A storyteller among the six, always narrating his own life to himself.

Supporting characters

  • Mr Percival

    A silent seventh figure the six all orbit and admire.

  • Louis

  • Neville

  • Jinny