| A | B |
| Livvie Buhl | Weldon's old girlfriend |
| Weldon Yeager, Jr. | A police prisoner at Bridgton Memorial |
| Ms. Wetherby | Weldon's nurse |
| Loon Lake | The location of the Buhl's farm and the Yeager's cottage |
| Rick Wessel | Bought Weldon a drink for turning off his car lights |
| Doctor Weng | Weldon's doctor |
| Beecher's Grove | A small town where Weldon grew up |
| Briarwood | a fancy, expensive hotel |
| Lieutenant Becker | wants to watch his son play football |
| Springhurst | where Weldon currently lives |
| Peggy Stipe | just got her fake ID, so she was going to go to the Parrot with Weldon |
| Art Rothery | Weldon was staying with him while his parents were on vacation |
| Mr. Montague | Weldon's English teacher who flunked him due to his absences |
| Mr. Rozanski | the boss at Burger King who fired Weldon because he came to work with alcohol on his breath |
| Louis Yeager | managed a gift shop in Springhurst |
| Richard Svoboda | one of the boys Welson ran down and killed |
| Tina Rogers | the women Weldon meet in the Barclay room |
| Mr. Weldon Yeager | taught his son the rules of drinking like man |
| Miss Doebler | Weldon's sixth grade teacher who told him, "Weldon you're a writer. You've got real talent." |
| Jack Gutmacher | Weldon's blood brother who had forgotten him |
| Eddie and Stan | two guys Weldon drank with in a Michigan bar |