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Course Hero. "Jazz Study Guide." Course Hero. 28 July 2016. Web. 8 June 2023. <https://www.coursehero.com/lit/Jazz/>.
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Course Hero. (2016, July 28). Jazz Study Guide. In Course Hero. Retrieved June 8, 2023, from https://www.coursehero.com/lit/Jazz/
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Course Hero. "Jazz Study Guide." July 28, 2016. Accessed June 8, 2023. https://www.coursehero.com/lit/Jazz/.
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| Character | Description |
|---|---|
| Violet Trace | Violet is a middle-aged woman living in the City who struggles to understand her husband's affair with a younger woman. Read More |
| Joe Trace | Joe is a man whose marriage has dissolved into silence and loneliness, which drives him to have an affair with a younger woman. Read More |
| Dorcas | Dorcas is an attractive young woman with whom Joe has a short but intense affair that results in her murder. Read More |
| Alice Manfred | Alice is a strict woman who tries to protect her niece, Dorcas, from sexual temptation and who struggles to understand her niece's murder. Read More |
| Acton | Acton is the young man Dorcas dates when she is breaking off her affair with Joe. |
| Felice | Felice is Dorcas's close friend and confidante; she helps Violet and Joe understand Dorcas after her death. |
| Honor | Honor is a young teen who assists Henry LesTroy in Virginia; he helps Wild give birth. |
| Sweetness | Sweetness is Malvonne's nephew, who for reasons unexplained stole and opened mail before moving to a city out West. |
| Victory | Victory is the foster brother with whom Joe grows up. |
| Wild | Wild is a woman who lives in the woods near Joe's home, never speaks, and is Joe's mother. |
| Golden Gray | Golden Gray is the spoiled son of Vera Louise Gray and Henry LesTroy; he struggles to accept his biracial parentage. |
| Henry LesTroy | The father of Golden Gray, hunter Henry LesTroy helps Wild deliver her baby and finds a foster family for him. |
| Malvonne Edwards | The Traces' nosy and observant neighbor, Malvonne rents Joe her rooms for his trysts with Dorcas and later regrets doing so. |
| Rose Dear | Rose Dear is Violet's mother, who collapses under the stress of poverty, an absentee husband, and racial injustice and ends up drowning herself. |
| True Belle | True Belle begins life as Vera Louise's slave and helps her raise Golden Gray; later she becomes surrogate mother to Rose Dear's five children. |
| Vera Louise Gray | Vera Louise is a young Virginian woman who has an affair with Henry LesTroy and raises their child, Golden Gray, in Baltimore. |
| Winsome Clark | Winsome Clark is the writer of one of the letters that Sweetness stole. |
| Colonel Wordsworth Gray | Colonel Gray is a wealthy Virginian who disowns his daughter when she becomes pregnant with Henry LesTroy's baby. |
| Gistan | Gistan is one of Joe's friends in the City. |
| Stuck | Stuck is one of Joe's friends in the City. |
| Frances Miller | Frances Miller is Alice Manfred's pious neighbor who takes care of children; she is Neola's sister. |
| Neola Miller | Neola Miller is Alice Manfred's pious neighbor who takes care of children; she is Frances's sister. |
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