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- Sal. The narrator of Walk Two Moons. Sal is a high-spirited country girl deeply troubled by the loss of her mother. She gains strength from spending time in natural settings and from her Native American heritage, and many of her memories and experiences center on trees, rivers, wild berries, and mountains.
- Phoebe Winterbottom. Sal's best friend in Euclid, Ohio. Phoebe, who lives next door to Margaret Cadaver, is a high-strung girl obsessed with propriety and order.
- Sal's grandparents. Sal's father's parents. Gramps and Gram drive Sal across the country to visit her mother's final resting place in Lewiston, Idaho. Gramps and Gram, wacky and unpredictable, have been arrested several times for their innocent foibles, such as "borrowing" a tire from a police car.
- Sal's father. A loving, gentle, almost too-perfect man. Sal's father takes Sal to Euclid, Ohio shortly after his wife's death because he is overwhelmed by grief for her at the farm.
Sal and Phoebe see the lunatic several times over the next few weeks—and after Mrs. Winterbottom disappears, Phoebe becomes convinced that the lunatic kidnapped and murdered her mother. But Sal discovers that the lunatic’s name is Mike, and he’s actually Sergeant Bickle ’s son.
The timeline below shows where the character Sergeant Bickle appears in Walk Two Moons. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance. Chapter 29. ...says this is about Mrs. Winterbottom, and the woman leads the girls to speak to Sergeant Bickle .
Mrs. Winterbottom is a fascinating character. She's is Phoebe's sad and lonely mom who eventually leaves her family for a time. And we can't really blame her for it. After all, everyone treats her like she's a servant or something.
Mr. Winterbottom is Phoebe and Prudence ’s father and Mrs. Winterbottom ’s husband. Both Sal and Phoebe think of Mr. Winterbottom as upstanding and stoic.
Although home is Mrs. Winterbottom's natural habitat, her comfort zone, if you like, she begins to feel unappreciated by her family, who take her for granted.
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Nov 21, 2023 · In the story Walk Two Moons, Mike is not actually a 'lunatic' at all! He is a young college boy who was been given up for adoption by Mrs. Winterbottom when he was a baby.