# The Song of the Lark — Character guide

> Key figures in The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather.

- [Thea Kronborg](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_song_of_the_lark_se/characters/thea_kronborg.md): Thea Kronborg is the odd, gifted child of a large Swedish family in Moonstone, taking piano lessons from a failing German and singing in the church choir while her neighbors find her proud and her sisters find her strang
- [Dr. Howard Archie](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_song_of_the_lark_se/characters/dr_howard_archie.md): Dr. Archie is the doctor everyone in Moonstone trusts and the man whose own marriage has gone sour in a way he never quite names aloud. He is drawn to Thea not romantically but with a kind of quixotic faith — he sees her
- [Fred Ottenburg](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_song_of_the_lark_se/characters/fred_ottenburg.md): Fred Ottenburg moves easily through moneyed, musical circles — the son of a beer magnate, welcome at Mrs. Nathanmeyer's table, fluent in the language of patronage and praise. He is genuinely discerning about voices, and 
- [Ray Kennedy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_song_of_the_lark_se/characters/ray_kennedy.md): Ray Kennedy is a wandering, self-educated man who reads Ingersoll in the caboose and speaks Spanish like a different person south of the border. He has a high standard of personal honor, a sentimental reverence for women
- [Mrs. Kronborg](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_song_of_the_lark_se/characters/mrs_kronborg.md): Mrs. Kronborg is the practical center of the Kronborg household, a woman who browns coffee, manages a brood of children, and tells the Ladies' Aid exactly what she thinks about standard composers. She is not sentimental 
- [Herr Wunsch](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_song_of_the_lark_se/characters/herr_wunsch.md): Herr Wunsch is a broken-down musician giving lessons in Moonstone for whatever the town will pay, drinking more than he should and remembering a Europe he will never see again. He is the first person to tell Thea that he
- [Tillie Kronborg](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_song_of_the_lark_se/characters/tillie_kronborg.md): Thea's sentimental, scrapbook-keeping aunt, whose small-town life is redeemed by the conviction that she was meant to touch something wonderful.
- [Mrs. Harsanyi](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_song_of_the_lark_se/characters/mrs_harsanyi.md): The Hungarian pianist's wife in Chicago, who reads her husband's disappointments with clear eyes and absorbs the wounds his frustrated ambition leaves behind.
- [Spanish Johnny](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_song_of_the_lark_se/characters/spanish_johnny.md): A Mexican musician in Moonstone who recognizes Thea's talent early on.
- [Mr. Kronborg](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_song_of_the_lark_se/characters/mr_kronborg.md): Thea's father, a Methodist minister whose sermons and standing in Moonstone quietly shape the household his daughter is straining to escape.
- [Mr. Bowers](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_song_of_the_lark_se/characters/mr_bowers.md): The local music teacher and organist in Moonstone.
- [Thor](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_song_of_the_lark_se/characters/thor.md): One of Thea's younger brothers in the Kronborg family.
- [Mrs. Kohler](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_song_of_the_lark_se/characters/mrs_kohler.md): An elderly German neighbor who befriends Thea and Herr Wunsch.
- [Andor Harsanyi](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_song_of_the_lark_se/characters/andor_harsanyi.md): Thea's Chicago piano teacher, a brilliant Hungarian whose own career has stalled, and who stakes his remaining hope on a stubborn, incurious girl from Colorado.
- [Madison Bowers](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_song_of_the_lark_se/characters/madison_bowers.md): A voice teacher in Chicago who trains Thea.
- [Mrs. Tellamantez](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_song_of_the_lark_se/characters/mrs_tellamantez.md): A Mexican woman in Moonstone who hosts dances.
- [Mr. Larsen](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_song_of_the_lark_se/characters/mr_larsen.md): A resident of Moonstone, possibly a shopkeeper.
- [Fritz Kohler](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_song_of_the_lark_se/characters/fritz_kohler.md): Mrs. Kohler's husband, a German immigrant and gardener.
- [Rev. Lars Larsen](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_song_of_the_lark_se/characters/rev_lars_larsen.md): A Methodist minister who sometimes preaches in Moonstone.
- [Mrs. Andersen](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_song_of_the_lark_se/characters/mrs_andersen.md): A neighbor in Moonstone.
- [Mrs. Archie](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_song_of_the_lark_se/characters/mrs_archie.md): Dr. Archie's invalid wife.
- [Peter Kronborg](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_song_of_the_lark_se/characters/peter_kronborg.md): Thea's grandfather, a retired minister.
- [Henry Biltmer](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_song_of_the_lark_se/characters/henry_biltmer.md): An old German farmer near Moonstone.
- [Gunner](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_song_of_the_lark_se/characters/gunner.md): A Swedish railroad worker in Moonstone.
- [Anna Belle White](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_song_of_the_lark_se/characters/anna_belle_white.md): A girl in Moonstone, part of Thea's social circle.
- [Mrs. Livery Johnson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_song_of_the_lark_se/characters/mrs_livery_johnson.md): A woman who runs a boarding house in Moonstone.
- [Mrs. Lorch](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_song_of_the_lark_se/characters/mrs_lorch.md): An elderly woman in Moonstone.
- [Lily Fisher](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_song_of_the_lark_se/characters/lily_fisher.md): A pretty but shallow girl in Moonstone.
- [Mrs. Priest](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_song_of_the_lark_se/characters/mrs_priest.md): A woman in Moonstone who hosts social gatherings.
- [Axel](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_song_of_the_lark_se/characters/axel.md): One of Thea's younger brothers.

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