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| Character | Description |
|---|---|
| Miss Lonelyhearts | Miss Lonelyhearts is a newspaper reporter who volunteered to write the paper's advice column, which is titled "Miss Lonelyhearts." Read More |
| Shrike | Willie Shrike is the feature editor of the New York Post-Dispatch. Read More |
| Betty | Betty is a good-natured woman who is engaged to Miss Lonelyhearts. Read More |
| Peter Doyle | Peter Doyle, 41 years old, is one of Miss Lonelyhearts's letter writers, and a gas meter reader whose disability causes him to suffer. Read More |
| Fay Doyle | Fay Doyle, one of Miss Lonelyhearts's letter writers, is sure she was meant for a better life than the one she has. Read More |
| Broad Shoulders | Broad Shoulders is one of Miss Lonelyhearts's letter writers. She is separated from an insanely cruel man, but she considers taking him back because she is so poor. |
| Desperate | Desperate is one of Miss Lonelyhearts's letter writers. She is a 16-year-old girl who was born without a nose. |
| Miss Farkis | Miss Farkis works in a bookstore and has some ambitions as a writer. She sometimes dates Shrike, who is married. |
| Ned Gates | Ned Gates is a friend of Miss Lonelyhearts's. Together they torment George B. Simpson. |
| Goldsmith | Goldsmith works at the New York Post-Dispatch. He writes Miss Lonelyhearts's column when Miss Lonelyhearts is too sick and hungover to do it. |
| Jake | Jake is the bartender at Delehanty's, a speakeasy. |
| Harold S. | Harold S. is one of Miss Lonelyhearts's few male letter writers. He is a teenager who worries about his deaf-mute sister, who might be pregnant. |
| Mrs. Shrike | Mary Shrike is attractive and flirtatious, but she refuses to have sex with Miss Lonelyhearts. Shrike claims she also refuses to have sex with him. |
| George B. Simpson | Simpson is an old man whom Miss Lonelyhearts and Ned abuse one night. |
| Sick-of-it-all | Sick-of-it-all is one of Miss Lonelyhearts's letter writers. She suffers from a painful kidney condition, caused, she believes, by having seven children in 12 years. She would like to terminate her current pregnancy, but she and her husband are religious. |
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