Goon Squad Characters

1.Devon is the main character of the story. We learn that Devon has been screwing his secretary Shanna. Devon gets numerous amounts of phone calls from Tracy, but declines them.

“At about the same time, I was comforting the man who had been hit… He wanted to hold my hand because it was hurting him so bad.”

Was when they got in the military vehicles and drive to the bridge were the hijacking was going on. At that time Ben father had another chance to save his son from making himself committing suicide. Was at that time in the military vehicle Ben father could have told Ben that he know how Nettie turned him down on a data.Or Ben father could have told Ben that he know about all the other thing that happen to Ben. If Ben father would have done that he would have done that Ben would thing his father wants to be apart of his life and would make Ben like his father more. But Ben father doesn't talk instead Ben Father stays quiet and in doing that Ben thing his father doesn't wont anything with him or his life. At the end rate if Ben father would open up and talk to Ben could have open up to him to his father. But since Ben cape his feelings all bottled up so no one know how he

As the women lived on, the gang gave Gemma a name: Ksiezniczka, which means princess in polish. Josef and Gemma had a platonic love relationship with each other. “Somehow, by breathing life into the girl, by naming her, he had become a person of consequence, had all unwitting become their leader”. Josef doesn’t know who he is, but after the experience of saving Gemma’s life, he finds his identity.

By he end of the book she learns to trust a few select people and starts to open up. Antonia also manages to make a friend, which she was without in the beginning. "Don't worry, Antonia. I'll be in touch. You just enjoy being back home with your own family." Page 183 paragraph 7. By reaching out for help, Antonia realizes that her life is finally starting to head in the right direction and that it all started because she was able to drop her guard with Jazz.

There are three main characters in the novel starting with Elena Dunkle. Elena is twenty some years old and has Anorexia Nervosa. She believes that to be perfect you need makeup, perfect grades, and to never eat. ‘“You let yourself get forced into eating a hot dog. Therefore you are a spineless, obese, out-of-control ballon”’(117). That is her inner voice talking to her. It jnormally does this to make her feel horrible about herself so she doesn't have to eat. She is the protagonist in the story. The next main character is Elena Dunkle. Clara is Elena’s mom and she is in her late forties. She is terrified that her daughter is going to die. ‘“...if you’re going to continue to destroy yourself, you’re not gonna use a single thing of ours to help you do it”’(283). She wants to help Elena get better. She loves her with all of her heart and doesn’t want to see her this way. The last character is Valerie Dunkle. Valeris is Elena’s sister. She used to be very suicidal and walked out on her family when they tried to help her. ‘“I’ve swallowed a bottle of pills”’(187). They ended up sending her to a psych ward. She managed to escape the institute and moved away with her now husband Clint. She wants to be

Rarely does a person come across a book with alternating points of view, an endless stream of characters, and powerpoint slides. Yet, all of those different structures intertwine within the novel, A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan. Without its structure the novel would be unremarkable. The ever-switching points of view and types of prose carry the different perspectives of the main characters, and the division of the book into two sections symbolizes the flip sides of their lives. Ultimately, the structure unravels as its own character, which illustrates the main theme of the novel, that time is a goon tied to music.

In a novel that jumps between periods of time and interchanges multiple characters, Lou Kline is one of the only consistent elements throughout the entirety of A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan. Lou is first portrayed hostily as a abhorrent, egocentric man who fears growing older. In the next chapter, the reader’s perception of Lou is altered from a sleazy man to a more paternal figure, and the reader understands that while Lou has done despicable things, he is not completely immoral. Altered again, the final image of Lou is that of pity - as a dying man, his failures are recounted and he is therefore at his most vulnerable. Egan’s non-linear structure of the novel allows the reader to see multiple sides of Lou Kline through different character perspectives, and in the end amplify the merciless effect time has on a destructive urge to remain youthful and assert dominance to “win” at everything.

But Bennie had other plans, Bennie thought that George was full of himself and she didn’t enjoy being with him as much as she thought that she might. Bennie ends up breaking up with her very rich boyfriend. Bennie had become friends with a Nigerian boy, Joseph Asagai, and then is asked to marry him and move to Africa with him once she gets her medical degree. Mama isn’t happy with Bennie when she finds out that Bennie doesn’t want to be with George anymore so this causes another argument, Mama finally is ok with Bennie being with Joseph but isn’t sure if she should move all the way to Africa.

After this Leah’s morals take a new turn, and although they just as strong as her previous ones, they are still changed by what she has experienced. Overall, this contrasts helps highlight the different growth that the different characters have from the same dilemmas.

Even when Sasha does not want to remember her past, it creeps up on her and comes to life anyway. She is walking down a Paris street on her second day in town and as she is walking, she remembers that she used to work at a shop not far from the street she was on. She recounts the story of a woman who came into her shop that was bald and she was looking to buy an accessory to wear in her hair for the evening. The woman’s daughter is completely embarrassed and she begs her mother to leave. After trying on several different pieces, the old woman finally gives up. Sasha overhears the daughter tell her mother that she has made a perfect fool of herself and that if she ever intends on doing such a thing

The novel revolves around inter-character relationships and how they can benefit and deface each character. One important relationship occurs between Lorraine and Ben. Upon their first meeting Ben tells Lorraine, “‘I liked you from the first off,’ he said shyly, and seeing her smile, he continued. ‘You remind me lots of my little girl’”, (Naylor 147). Lorraine gives Ben moral support and personal comfort that he hasn't had since his wife left. She also gives him a positive remind of his daugher, that doesn't send him to drink as his memories of her do.

     The novel begins to slow down in pace at this time. New characters are introduced and subplots begin to develop. These subplots include Rodya’s sister, Dounia and her attempt at marriage with a rich senator named Luzhin. Dounia had worked for a friend of Luzhin, Marfa Petrovna. Marfa was a rich woman who owned an estate. Dounia was a domestic servant on the estate. Living there also was Svidrigailov, Marfa’s husband. They were

All characters still go through their trials and tribulations; however, Zoe calms everyone down and sets a softer mood in the book. At least up until the climax of the story.

Gurov has found a woman he can love for the rest of his life, and he hates the fact that she is not with him. She has left him just as the way he would leave the women he has had affairs with. He feels that she is the only woman to make him happy in the world. His own past has doomed him; He knows he can never be with Anna but trys to make a effort to see her again in S--. He arrives at her home to see that she is enclosed by a long fence, slammed in with nails, a prison he imagines it to be. Desperately seeking to find her he attends a theater at night. He sees her there with her tall husband, wearing a uniform. While her husband is gone, Gurov approaches her to speak with him, as she leaves the auditorium to avoid him. Gurov catches up to her and they speak for a short while and Anna promises to him that she will come to Moscow to visit him.