Oryx and Crake Characters
A Chill Chat about Characters The main character Snowman in Margaret Atwood's novel Oryx and Crake is a survivor of a global pandemic. With a unique name like Snowman, it’s expected for the character to be a tad complex. There are a few brief mentions of his parents, Crake, and some other less important side characters, though Snowman appears to primarily be the focus of the novel. From what I've gathered in the first few chapters of the book, Snowman is a sentimental character. He keeps things like his "authentic-replica Red Sox baseball cap" as a reminder of what life was like before the pandemic (4). He also recites things to himself like quotes from before but he’s slowly beginning to forget the endings, meanings, and where they came from. Snowman appears to be doing these sentimental things in an attempt to keep the memory alive of what life was like before the world went to ruins, perhaps something that motivates him to survive. The baseball cap seems to be of ...