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1. Characters a. Clym Yeobright – returns from Paris for a visit, ends up staying. He studies his

books all day. He wants to teach and falls in love with Eustacia. They get married against Mrs. Yeobright’s wishes. Clym loses his sight and becomes a furze-cutter. A rift is created between him and Eustacia, who wanted to go to Paris and experience the world. Clym blames himself for his mother’s death. Eustacia and he have a fight and separate: Clym to his mother’s, Eustacia to her grandfather’s. While at his Bloom’s End, Clym sends a letter of reconciliation to Eustacia. It is too late, however, for she has run away with Damon. She dies during her attempted escape. After Eustacia dies, Clym becomes a preacher. He is the title character of the novel, but does not appear until far into the novel, making “the myth proceed the man.” b. Eustacia Vye – was in an affair with Damon before the novel began. Damon left

her for Thomasin, which angered Eustacia. She starts an affair with Damon, preventing him from marrying Thomasin. When she hears of Clym’s arrival and sees him as a more suitable match for herself, she severs ties with Damon, allowing him to marry Thomasin. She starts an affair with Clym and, after they fall in love, they marry. Eustacia had more grandiose plans, however, and eventually is driven to run away from Egdon Heath. She enlists the help of Damon, who is still in love with her, knowing she will have to become his mistress for his help. She dies during her flight from the Heath. She is passionate, untamable, and full of wrath, and hates but does not fear the Heath. c. Damon Wildeve –owns the local inn. After initially having cold feet to marrying

Thomasin, he marries her. He isn’t very good to his wife; he does not give her a little money to buy personal articles. Then, he takes the money Mrs. Yeobright leaves to Thomasin for his own. He is apparently in love with Eustacia throughout the novel, always answering to her signals from her grandfather’s house. When he inherits a large sum of money, he approaches Eustacia to fulfill her wishes to live a more cosmopolitan life. He attempts to run away with Eustacia, and dies while attempting to save Eustaica from the Weir. d. Thomasin – is innocent, and pitiable. She is very emotional throughout, especially

in the beginning. Venn finds her after her marriage to Damon failed. He takes her home, where Thomasin and Damon pretend to be married. She feels she has caused great dishonor to the family, and feels sorry for herself because of it. She eventually marries Damon. We get the impression that this is a somewhat loveless marriage. Thomasin comes to Clym with her baby in desperation on the night of Damon and Eustacia’s flight from Egdon Heath. She is able to call upon the

Reddleman to save Clym from the Weir, but Damon and Eustacia perish. She stays at Bloom’s End for a while, then later marries Venn in the Epilogue. e. Venn Diggory – is a reddleman. Before the novel, Venn asks Thomasin's hand in

marriage, but she regarded him as more of a friend than husband. Thomasin then becomes a reddleman, a traveling salesman of sorts. Venn cares very deeply for Thomasin, and shows that he cares more about her happiness than his own. He helps Thomasin get back to her home after her emotional breakdown from not marrying Damon. He wins the money Damon gambled out of Christian for Thomasin. Believing the money to be solely Thomasin’s, he gives it to her and not half to Thomasin and half to Clym, as was allotted. He often appears out of nowhere in the Heath to somehow aid his love, Thomasin. After the events of the novel, he takes up dairy farming, the profession of his father. He loses his red skin thusly, and marries Thomasin eventually. f.

Mrs. Yeobright – is a very pride widow. She holds her family’s honor very highly, and has high expectations of her son and niece. She does not approve of Damon at first as a husband for Thomasin, and completely does not approve of Eustacia. She was proud of her son when he was a rich businessman in Paris, but does not want him to follow his chosen path of teaching. Mrs. Yeobright and her son have a falling out when Clym marries Eustacia. It might have been cleared up more easily had Eustacia, meeting Mrs. Yeobright one day, not exacerbated the situation. Mrs. Yeobright, finally deciding to reconcile with her son, travels to his house, only to be disallowed entry by Eustacia. Thinking herself cast off by her son, she makes the long trek home, succumbing to a snake bite and heat exhaustion. Her final words to Johnny Nunsuch were that she was sad her son had cast her off.