The Women
The WomenKristin Hannah
Characters in The Women
7 characters, main characters first.Main characters
Frances “Frankie” McGrath
A sheltered young woman from Coronado, California who enlists as an Army Nurse Corps nurse in Vietnam and returns to a country that denies women served.
Supporting characters
Barbara Sue Johnson
Barb: a surgical nurse from Georgia who becomes Frankie's closest friend in Vietnam and afterwards.
Ethel Flint
A combat nurse and one of Frankie's original roommates in Vietnam, and a lifelong friend.
Rye Walsh
Joseph "Rye" Ryerson Walsh, a Navy pilot, her brother's best friend, and Frankie's central love interest.
Jamie Callahan
A field surgeon at the hospital in Vietnam who supervises and befriends Frankie.
Finley McGrath
Frankie's adored older brother, a Navy officer whose deployment to Vietnam sets her own enlistment in motion.
Henry Acevedo
A psychiatrist and anti-war protestor who becomes Frankie's fiance after the war.