# The Red Room — Character guide

> Key figures in The Red Room by August Strindberg.

- [Arvid Falk](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_red_room_se/characters/arvid_falk.md): Falk moves through drawing rooms, newsrooms, and the smoky back tables of the Red Room, taking the measure of a city that rewards flattery and punishes conviction. His charm and his pride pull against each other: he can 
- [Charles Nicholas Falk](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_red_room_se/characters/charles_nicholas_falk.md): Where Arvid scorns the world, Charles Nicholas has mastered it: he keeps the accounts, the household, and the family reputation in good order. The brothers' affection is real but strained by everything unspoken between t
- [Olle Montanus](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_red_room_se/characters/olle_montanus.md): Olle was the bohemians' great hope — a politician and speaker before he was a sculptor — until failure soured him into solitude, and he now refuses to impose on the men who once cheered him. He is the group's conscience 
- [Sellén](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_red_room_se/characters/sellen.md): Sellén moves through the artists' colony with the easy cynicism of a man who has learned to distrust his own enthusiasm, mocking sentiment even as he notices the first snow's solemnity. His wit is a shield: he clings to 
- [Rehnhjelm](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_red_room_se/characters/rehnhjelm.md): Rehnhjelm enters the theatre hungry for art and is handed a servant's part while a waiter is given Don Diego — a humiliation the company discusses before he has even learned his lines. His earnestness makes him both symp
- [Falander](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_red_room_se/characters/falander.md): Falander sits over his dinner and dissects the theatre manager's success with the precision of a man who has stopped expecting better from anyone, including himself. His gloom is not passive — it is a settled philosophy,
- [Struve](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_red_room_se/characters/struve.md): Struve moves through the artists' circle as an acquaintance of Arvid, a man whose ambitions outpace his talents and whose pride flares at the smallest audience. When he shoulders a coffin into the street, the watching cr
- [Lundell](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_red_room_se/characters/lundell.md): Once a painter of religious pictures, Lundell abandoned the altar for the table, becoming a genial freeloader who only visits the Red Room when his purse is empty. He defends his endless dinners and suppers as essential 
- [Fritz Levin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_red_room_se/characters/fritz_levin.md): Levin drifts through the bohemian haunts as the friend nobody quite trusts, a man who borrows from Falk and never repays. His sudden promotion after nineteen years of service astonishes even those who pity him, and his p
- [Eugenia Falk](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_red_room_se/characters/eugenia_falk.md): Eugenia Falk runs a household of small economies and large proprieties, hosting teas where women's rights and velvet dresses are discussed with equal gravity. She refuses to interfere in her husband's business even as sh
- [Ygberg](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_red_room_se/characters/ygberg.md): A fellow writer and acquaintance in literary circles.
- [Dr. Borg](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_red_room_se/characters/dr_borg.md): Borg inhabits the infirmary at Kingsholm, where he dissects the mutilated body of a suicide and greets late-night visitors with an offer to see an old friend. He is the colony's sardonic anchor, the man whose composure n
- [Nyström](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_red_room_se/characters/nystrom.md): A member of the artists' colony.
- [Smith](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_red_room_se/characters/smith.md): An Englishman involved in the newspaper syndicate.
- [Agnes Rundgren](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_red_room_se/characters/agnes_rundgren.md): Agnes Rundgren moves through the artists' world with a disarming recklessness, turning a moral execution into a farce when she fires Falander's revolver up the chimney. She parries accusations about her whereabouts with 
- [Isaac Levi](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_red_room_se/characters/isaac_levi.md): A Jewish moneylender and businessman.
- [Mrs. Homan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_red_room_se/characters/mrs_homan.md): A society lady and mother of Evelyn.
- [Andersson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_red_room_se/characters/andersson.md): A servant or workman in the Falk household.
- [Gustav Eriksson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_red_room_se/characters/gustav_eriksson.md): A young apprentice or workman.
- [Master Joiner Eriksson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_red_room_se/characters/master_joiner_eriksson.md): A master joiner and employer of Gustav.
- [Beda Petterson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_red_room_se/characters/beda_petterson.md): A young woman in the theatrical company.
- [Count Splint](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_red_room_se/characters/count_splint.md): A nobleman involved in the Triton insurance scandal.
- [Nathanael Skore](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_red_room_se/characters/nathanael_skore.md): A clergyman who appears in the narrative.

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