# The Magnificent Ambersons — Character guide

> Key figures in The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington.

- [George Amberson Minafer](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_magnificent_ambersons_se/characters/george_amberson_minafer.md): George Amberson Minafer is the town's most envied young man, groomed by a family that spoiled him terribly and let him grow up expecting the world to arrange itself around him. His uncle tells him plainly that he has alw
- [Lucy Morgan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_magnificent_ambersons_se/characters/lucy_morgan.md): Lucy Morgan arrives in town as Eugene's daughter, educated, graceful, and unimpressed by the Amberson name in a way George has never encountered. She matches his arrogance with teasing composure, refusing to be won simpl
- [Eugene Morgan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_magnificent_ambersons_se/characters/eugene_morgan.md): Eugene Morgan was young Isabel's suitor before she married Wilbur Minafer, and he returns years later as a widower, an inventor, and a believer in the noisy, smelly machines everyone else mocks. He speaks of faith as wha
- [Isabel Amberson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_magnificent_ambersons_se/characters/isabel_amberson.md): Isabel Amberson Minafer is the beauty neither time nor trouble seems to have touched, adored by her father, her brother, and Eugene Morgan, who never quite stopped loving her. She married the dull Wilbur Minafer instead 
- [Fanny Minafer](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_magnificent_ambersons_se/characters/fanny_minafer.md): Fanny Minafer lives on the family's fringe, counting columns of figures for her electric headlight investment and dreading the poverty that is quietly closing in. She is in love with Eugene Morgan and knows it is hopeles
- [Major Amberson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_magnificent_ambersons_se/characters/major_amberson.md): Major Amberson made the family's money and the family's name, and for most of the novel he presides over both with the easy authority of a man who has never had to imagine them ending. After Isabel's death he sits starin
- [Wilbur Minafer](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_magnificent_ambersons_se/characters/wilbur_minafer.md): Wilbur Minafer marries the dazzling Isabel Amberson and promptly fades into the background of his own life, a modest businessman absorbed into a family that treats his name as a footnote. His one lasting act is fathering
- [Fred Kinney](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_magnificent_ambersons_se/characters/fred_kinney.md): Fred Kinney belongs to the working, get-ahead generation of the town, the kind of young man who actually builds things while George lounges on his family's reputation. His friction with George — over work, over pride, an
- [Mrs. Johnson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_magnificent_ambersons_se/characters/mrs_johnson.md): A gossipy neighbor and friend of the Ambersons.
- [Sydney Amberson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_magnificent_ambersons_se/characters/sydney_amberson.md): George's uncle, a somewhat frivolous member of the Amberson family.
- [Old John Minafer](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_magnificent_ambersons_se/characters/old_john_minafer.md): George's grandfather, a wealthy but reclusive figure.
- [Mrs. Henry Franklin Foster](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_magnificent_ambersons_se/characters/mrs_henry_franklin_foster.md): A society matron and acquaintance of the Ambersons.

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