Character Profiles: The Possesion of Doug Sawyer

Main Character:

Doug Sawyer

Age: 37

Nationality: White British

Hometown: London

Occupation: Office worker, admin.

Height: 5’11

Weight: slightly overweight, beer belly.

Eye colour: Light brown

Hair colour: Light brown

Glasses? Yes

Skin colour: white

Shape of face: Round

Distinguishing features: 5’oclock shadow around his mouth makes him look shabby.

Strengths:

Weaknesses:

Continues with things in his life that make him unhappy (job and marriage)

Susceptible to cheating (with ghost)

Weak willed, becomes possessed.

Role in the story: Main character, becomes riddled with insomnia and begins seeing a woman around his house who he sleeps with and becomes possessed.

Angela Sawyer

Age: 39

Nationality: White British

Hometown: London

Occupation: Dinner lady at a school

Height: 4’10

Weight: Heavily overweight

Eye colour: light blue

Hair colour: blonde (dyed), dark brown roots.

Glasses: No

Skin colour: white, fake tanned.

Shape of face: Heart shaped

Distinguishing features: mole on her cheek

Strengths:

Weaknesses:

Role in story: Main character’s wife. Is against everything her husband does or says, she is his antagonist. She finds him possessed at the end of the story as he flings himself from the window of their apartment.

Ghost Angela Sawyer

Age: (?) - Angela but younger (25?)

Role in story: Is the ghost of Angela and who she was when she first fell in love with Doug. Symbolism of the ghost of their past relationship before it turned sour.

Has the same appearance as Angela except she has no dark roots and is thin, Doug finds ghost Angela more attractive.