Meet the Cast
The Governess
The Governess is the only character we can really sink our teeth into in this story—in fact, maybe we should just go ahead and say that she's the only real character. Everyone else is a bit ghost...
Miles
The Miracle Miles Here's the thing: for a character as central as Miles is, we actually know very little about him...which is actually what makes him so mystifying and interesting. Some people migh...
Flora
Flora The ExplorerFlora is two years younger than her brother—she's eight—and is just as adorable; the two of them are often compared to angels, and their beauty is their most prominent quality...
Peter Quint
The Devil In DisguisePeter Quint is just all kinds of trouble. First of all, he’s an evil spirit who’s come to haunt and/or possess little Miles. That alone would be enough to pin him as the vi...
Miss Jessel
Ghostess With The MostessEven though she's definitely one of the two villains of this story (from a conventional point of view, that is), we don't really know anything about Miss Jessel. We know so...
Mrs. Grose
Grose NegligenceMrs. Grose is something of a blank page—a kindly, loving blank page, but a blank one nonetheless. We hear early on that she's been in the service of the family for a long time (sh...
The Uncle
Say "Uncle"As you can see, the general theme here is that we don't really know anything at all about any of these characters, even our narrator. However, Miles and Flora's uncle really takes the ca...