Train Dreams
Train DreamsDenis Johnson
Characters in Train Dreams
5 characters, main characters first.Main characters
Robert Grainier
A day laborer on logging crews and railroad gangs in the Idaho Panhandle, whose life the novella follows across five decades.
Supporting characters
Gladys Grainier
Grainier's wife, who keeps their cabin in the valley near Fry, Idaho, while he is away working.
Kate Grainier
Robert and Gladys's infant daughter, born in the cabin the family shares in the Idaho valley.
Arn Peeples
An eccentric old explosives man on a logging crew, whose talk about the forest stays with Grainier.
Kootenai Bob
A Native American man Grainier knows, full of stories about the wolves of the country and how they breed with dogs.