# Six Characters in Search of an Author — Character guide

> Key figures in Six Characters in Search of an Author by Luigi Pirandello.

- [The Father](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/six_characters_in_search_of_an_author_se/characters/the_father.md): He arrives at a rehearsal with six figures in mourning, claiming they were conceived by an author who abandoned them half-born and now demand the stage life they were denied. Alternately unctuous and violent, he argues t
- [The Step-Daughter](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/six_characters_in_search_of_an_author_se/characters/the_step_daughter.md): She bursts into the rehearsal with the Father and the rest, laughing at the Leading Lady cast to play her and refusing to be mixed up in the mess she herself has brought. Yet she is tender with the small Child, rocking h
- [The Mother](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/six_characters_in_search_of_an_author_se/characters/the_mother.md): She enters the theatre last, eyes downcast, dressed in modest black under a thick widow's veil, as if bowed by an intolerable weight of shame. Estranged from the Father and divided between the Son who rejects her and the
- [The Son](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/six_characters_in_search_of_an_author_se/characters/the_son.md): He stands apart from the others, supercilious toward the Mother and contemptuous of the Father, looking as though he has come against his will. His shame at the family's public exposure makes him the characters' internal
- [The Manager](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/six_characters_in_search_of_an_author_se/characters/the_manager.md): Rudely interrupted during a rehearsal, he first dismisses the intruders as a joke, then grows fascinated despite himself when the Father insists the drama is 'in us' and needs no script. Practical, impatient, and vain ab
- [The Actors](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/six_characters_in_search_of_an_author_se/characters/the_actors.md): They are the theatre's working body—Leading Man, Leading Lady, Juvenile Lead, and the rest—clearing the stage and listening as the Manager tries to explain what is happening. They laugh when the Father claims characters 
- [The Boy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/six_characters_in_search_of_an_author_se/characters/the_boy.md): A silent, troubled child among the six characters.
- [The Child](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/six_characters_in_search_of_an_author_se/characters/the_child.md): A young girl among the six characters, often overlooked.

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