# Plum Bun — Character guide

> Key figures in Plum Bun by Jessie Redmon Fauset.

- [Angela Murray](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/plum_bun_se/characters/angela_murray.md): Angela Murray grows up in a respectable Black household whose hard-won comforts feel like a chrysalis to her, and she resolves early that beauty and will should buy her a brighter world. In 1920s New York she reinvents h
- [Virginia Murray](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/plum_bun_se/characters/virginia_murray.md): Virginia is the sister who remains on Opal Street in spirit, loyal to the parents whose sacrifices Angela finds suffocating, and steady where Angela is restless. She means someday to invent a marvellous method for teachi
- [Anthony Cross](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/plum_bun_se/characters/anthony_cross.md): Anthony Cross moves through Angela's New York as a painter of real intensity, the kind of man whose silences and dark troublesome lines invite brooding rather than ease. He becomes both her artistic conscience and her lo
- [Jinny](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/plum_bun_se/characters/jinny.md): Jinny is the sister Angela left behind in Philadelphia, and the one who, when loneliness and heartbreak pressed too hard, chose change without disguise. Established in New York with friends, occupation, and security, she
- [Roger Fielding](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/plum_bun_se/characters/roger_fielding.md): Roger Fielding courts Angela from within the golden highway of old money and senatorial connections, a world where Carlotta Parks waits in the wings as the family's preferred match. He is ardent and well-liked, yet he de
- [Martha Burden](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/plum_bun_se/characters/martha_burden.md): A sharp-tongued boarding house owner in New York.
- [Paulette Lister](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/plum_bun_se/characters/paulette_lister.md): A sophisticated white socialite and friend of Roger Fielding.
- [Rachel Salting](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/plum_bun_se/characters/rachel_salting.md): A Jewish friend of Angela's in New York's art scene.
- [Ralph Ashley](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/plum_bun_se/characters/ralph_ashley.md): A white artist and acquaintance of Anthony Cross.
- [Junius Murray](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/plum_bun_se/characters/junius_murray.md): Junius Murray, with his wife Mattie, built the little house on Opal Street out of poverty and homelessness, and to him it is the ne plus ultra of ambition. His stories of arduous trades and infinitesimal savings would ma
- [June Mary Hastings](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/plum_bun_se/characters/june_mary_hastings.md): A young woman from Angela's Philadelphia circle.
- [Mrs. Murray](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/plum_bun_se/characters/mrs_murray.md): To Mattie Murray, the little house on Opal Street is the ne plus ultra of ambition, hard-won after poverty and homelessness, and she tells those stories of scraping and striving as if they were a latter-day Iliad. Her da
- [Carlotta Parks](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/plum_bun_se/characters/carlotta_parks.md): A black socialite and friend of Virginia's.
- [Sara Penton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/plum_bun_se/characters/sara_penton.md): A white socialite and friend of Paulette Lister.
- [Mattie Murray](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/plum_bun_se/characters/mattie_murray.md): A cousin of the Murray family from the South.

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