RVW Main Protagonist/Anti-Hero
Rip Van Winkle
RVW Antagonist
Damme Van Winkle
RVW Climax
meets the man in the Katskill Mountains, drinks the magical drink and sleeps for 20 years
RVW Resolution
accepts that he slept for 20 years, and becomes town story teller
Legend of Sleepy Hollow Protagonist/Anti-Hero
Ichabod Crane
Legend of Sleepy Hollow Antagonist
Brom
LSH Climax
Ichabod becomes upset with Katrina at her party, leaves, and realizes he is being followed by the headless horseman
LSH Resolution
Ichabod is never heard from again, and his story is told for years to come
The Birthmark Main Characters
Alymer and Georgiana
The Birthmark Motivation
to defy nature and create a perfect wife
The Birthmark Climax
Georgiana tells Alymer that she is dying
The Birthmark Resolution
Georgiana dies
The Minister's Black Veil Main Character
Reverend Hooper
MBV Motivation
to show that the townspeople have been living behind a mask of their own sin, a figurative black veil represented by his literal black veil
MBV Climax
Reverend Hooper is dying, and says that he sees a black veil on everyone's face
MBV Resolution
the veil that separates us from each other is the one thing we all share
The Black Cat Main Characters
Pluto the Cat, unnamed narrator and his wife
BC Climax
kills wife because she stopped him from killing second cat
BC Resolution
police come to narrator's apartment and narrator taps the wall that has the corpse; police find the body along with the missing cat
The Real Thing Main Character
unnamed narrator
RT summary
Monarchs don't make good models for anything but the higher class; lower class models are better because they are "just anybody"
RT Climax
publisher says he can't use the pictures using the Monarchs
RT Resolution
narrator was content to pay the price for the memory
Old Woman Magoun Main Characters
Magoun, Lilly, and Nelson
Magoun Climax
Lilly eats sour apples and milk; eventually kills her, like it did to her mother
Magoun Resolution
Magoun walks around the town with Lilly's doll
Afterward Main Characters
Mary and Ned Boyne, Robert Elwell
Afterward Climax
Ned leaves the house with the ghost
Afterward Resolution
Mary realizes that they had seen the ghost all along, but just didn't know it