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Book cover of Tuck Everlasting
Tuck EverlastingNatalie Babbitt

Characters in Tuck Everlasting

6 characters, main characters first.

Main characters

  • Winnie Foster

    A ten-year-old girl from an overprotective family who feels stifled by her sheltered life and longs for freedom and adventure of her own.

Antagonists

  • Man in the Yellow Suit

    A mysterious stranger who has been tracking the Tucks for years, intending to exploit the spring's secret for his own profit.

Supporting characters

  • Jesse Tuck

    The adventurous, seventeen-year-old-seeming younger Tuck son, who befriends Winnie and shows her the family's hidden world.

  • Mae Tuck

    The protective matriarch of the Tuck family, who takes Winnie in and ultimately acts to keep the family's secret from spreading.

  • Angus Tuck

    The weary Tuck family patriarch, who explains to Winnie why living forever without the natural cycle of life and death is more burden than gift.

  • Miles Tuck

    The eldest Tuck son, a capable and steadier presence than his younger brother, shaped by a failed marriage he could never explain.