- Colonel Sartoris Snopes ("Sarty") – protagonist
- Abner Snopes – patriarch of the Snopes family, personal hobby of burning barns, antagonist
- Lennie Snopes – wife of Abner and mother of Sarty
- Lizzie – unmarried sister of Lennie Snopes
- Major de Spain – Snopes's employer who Sarty warns about the barn burning
- Mr. Harris – Abner's first mentioned landowner
- Colonel John Snopes – Sarty's brother
- Sarty's two "bovine" sisters
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