# Driven Back to Eden — Character guide

> Key figures in Driven Back to Eden by Edward Payson Roe.

- [Unknown](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/driven_back_to_eden_se/characters/narrator.md): A city father whose small flat and restless children have become an unsolvable problem, he stakes everything on an abandoned farm called Eden.
- [Merton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/driven_back_to_eden_se/characters/merton.md): The eldest son, quick to shoulder farm labor and to stretch himself on a rag carpet after a long day's hauling.
- [Mr. Jones](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/driven_back_to_eden_se/characters/mr_jones.md): The lank, shrewd neighbor whose lantern bobs through a March blizzard to lead a half-frozen family to their own door.
- [Bobsey](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/driven_back_to_eden_se/characters/bobsey.md): A seven-year-old whirlwind of split coats and broken promises, tumbled by surf one moment and snoring in the hay the next.
- [Bagley](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/driven_back_to_eden_se/characters/bagley.md): A shiftless neighbor hired to rake hay, grateful for a breathing-spell and slowly breaking himself into harness.
- [Junior](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/driven_back_to_eden_se/characters/junior.md): A boy of the family who helps with farm and chores, alert as a hawk and quick to make friends among the deckhands.
- [Mousie](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/driven_back_to_eden_se/characters/mousie.md): Mousie is the family's frail, soft-spoken member, the one who makes no trouble and asks for little, watching the world from the sidelines while her siblings clamor for it. Where Winnie finds canal boats splendid, Mousie 
- [Winnie](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/driven_back_to_eden_se/characters/winnie.md): Winnie is one of the family's eager, questioning children, drinking in the busy world of wharves, machinery, and river craft alongside Bobsey. Where Mousie shrinks from the canal boats, Winnie protests that living in a t
- [John Jones](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/driven_back_to_eden_se/characters/john_jones.md): Neighbor or relative, possibly Mr. Jones's son.
- [Robert Durham](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/driven_back_to_eden_se/characters/robert_durham.md): A local man who assists the family occasionally.
- [Mrs. Jones](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/driven_back_to_eden_se/characters/mrs_jones.md): Mr. Jones's wife, a friendly neighbor.
- [Brindle](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/driven_back_to_eden_se/characters/brindle.md): A dog or animal companion of the family.
- [Mrs. Durham](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/driven_back_to_eden_se/characters/mrs_durham.md): Wife of Mr. Durham, a neighbor in Eden.
- [Mr. Jamison](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/driven_back_to_eden_se/characters/mr_jamison.md): An older resident of the area.
- [Melissa Daggett](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/driven_back_to_eden_se/characters/melissa_daggett.md): A local girl who appears briefly.
- [Papa](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/driven_back_to_eden_se/characters/papa.md): Term used by children for the narrator or father.

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