Whistler
Characters in Whistler
5 characters, main characters first.Main characters
Daphne Fuller
Now 53 and an English teacher in Manhattan, she narrates the novel as she reconnects with her former stepfather Eddie decades after a childhood car accident ended his marriage to her mother.
Supporting characters
Eddie Triplett
Daphne's former stepfather, a book editor married to her mother for a little over a year; exiled from the family after a car accident when Daphne was nine, the two reunite by chance forty-five years later at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Abigail Zabriskie
Daphne's mother, who married Eddie for a little over a year and ended the marriage after the accident that injured him and left nine-year-old Daphne to seek help alone in the snow.
Leda (Whistler)
Daphne's younger sister, now a clinical psychologist, who gently draws the full story of the accident out of Daphne.
Minor characters
Jonathan (Whistler)
Daphne's husband, a retired hospital administrator seventeen years her senior; he is with her at the Metropolitan Museum of Art when she recognizes Eddie.