fran goldsmith

A college student from Ogunquit, Maine, Fran (or Frannie, as she is often called), is pregnant at the start of the book, a topic which results in a painful standoff with her mother and the end of her relationship with the baby's father, Jesse Rider. The superflu all but wipes out her community, with Fran and Harold Lauder being the only local survivors after parking lot attendant Gus Dinsmore dies on June 30. After burying her father in the garden he was weeding just a week earlier, Frannie decides to join forces with Harold. Harold decides to paint a message on Moses Richardson's barn (as it overlooks US Route 1, the road most people would take into town) telling anyone who reads it that they have gone to the fictional Stovington, Vermont plague center and even leaves road directions, then finishes by signing both his name and Frannie's (the latter name causing him to nearly fall off the roof). The two make their way to the Stovington facility of the Centers for Disease Control in hop…more

Characters

Stuart Redman

A quiet man from the fictitious town of Arnette, Texas. He is there at the beginning of the plague and survives not only the Flu, but the governments attempt to eliminate him. Later he emerges as one of the leaders of the Boulder Free Zone. ...
Glenn Bateman

An associate professor of sociology who went into retirement some years before the superflu hit, Glendon Pequod "Glen" Bateman met Stu near Glens home in Woodsville, New Hampshire. A senior citizen handicapped by arthritis, the wise Bateman is often on ha...
Nick Andros

A 22-year-old deaf-mute drifter originally from Caslin, Nebraska, Nick is beaten and robbed outside of (fictional) Shoyo, Arkansas, by some local thugs shortly after the start of the epidemic. Moderately injured, he is befriended by the local sheriff and ...
Tom Cullen

Tom Cullen is a man initially thought to be in his mid-20s to mid-30s who suffers from mild to moderate mental retardation. Nick encounters him while cycling from Arkansas to Nebraska through Oklahoma. After Nick learns that Tom remembers his ...
Nadine Cross

A teacher before the Flu. Nadine is a conflicted woman who has always felt like she was destined for something great though it remains unknown and undefined until after Captain Trips. Ultimately she is a tragic figure torn between her desire to do good an...
Fran Goldsmith

A college student from Ogunquit, Maine, Fran (or Frannie, as she is often called), is pregnant at the start of the book, a topic which results in a painful standoff with her mother and the end of her relationship with the babys father, Jesse Rider. The su...
Harold Lauder

Harold is 16 years old and lived in Ogunquit, Maine, at the beginning of the novel. He is the younger brother of Fran Goldsmiths best friend, Amy Lauder, and is a social outcast in his local high school. Harold doesnt help matters for himself by being rat...
Joe/leo Rockway

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Mother Abigail Freemantle

Abagail Freemantle, also known as "Mother Abagail", leads the "good" survivors of the Captain Trips plague, and is also a prophet of God. She is 108 years old and lives in a farmhouse in Hemingford Home, Nebraska. She is one of the 0.6% of the population ...
Randall Flagg

Randall Flagg, also known as "the Dark Man" or "the Walkin Dude", is the main antagonist of The Stand. More (or less) than a man, he is the embodiment of evil, an antichrist-like being whose goal is destruction and death. In the novel, he is presented as ...
Trashcan Man

Donald Merwin Elbert, better known as the "Trashcan Man", is a schizophrenic pyromaniac, whose favorite phrases include "bumpty, bumpty, bump!" and "my life for you." He often found himself in trouble as a youth due to his fixation with fire. He was treat...
The Anti-christ

The antichrist is a Christian concept based on the exegesis of Second Temple (500 BCE–50 CE) Jewish texts that refer to anti-messiahs. The legend of the Antichrist is only within the context of Christian belief, where Jesus the messiah, appears in his Sec...
Judge Farris

A man in his late seventies who joins Larrys party in Illinois while making their way to Nebraska. Usually referred to as just "The Judge", he is a sharp, well-spoken, educated and insightful man who served as a judge in the 1950s, but has since retired. ...
Larry Underwood

Larry is a cocky young singer and composer who, at the beginning of the novel, is starting to reach real success with his debut single, "Baby, Can You Dig Your Man?" However he is also very selfish and self-centered. A prime candidate for Flagg.His story ...
General William Starkey

As the commanding officer of Project Blue, Starkey is aware that the superflu is almost impossible to control once loose. Though compassionate, he goes to extreme lengths to cover up the accident and its ensuing pandemic as long as he can; for example, he...
Major Len Creighton

Major Creighton is General Starkeys friend and right hand man, he periodically updates Starkey on the situation. He assumes command of the containment operation after Starkey is relieved of command of Project Blue and commits suicide in the Project ...
The Rat Man

"Ratty" Erwins, a.k.a. The Rat Man, is a pirate-like hood. He is described as dressing like an Ethiopian pirate, with a red sash, a necklace of silver dollars around his "scrawny neck" and a sword he often threatened Larry Underwood and Ralph Brentner wit...
Captain Trips

A weaponized influenza virus. Referred to as Captain Trips, Super Flu, Tube Neck and other colloquialisms. The virus is developed in a secret military lab located somewhere in the Southwestern United States, where it is accidentally released. Emergency qu...
Charles D. Campion

A soldier stationed at the Project Blue lab in the Southwestern United States , Campion is patient zero, the original carrier of the superflu outside of its containment area. On duty the night the deadly virus escapes the complex, he manages to flee with ...
Lucy Swann

The first survivor encountered by Larry Underwoods party, 24-year-old New Hampshire housewife Lucy has survived the superflu while her husband and daughter die. Lucy joins the party on their route to the Stovington Plague Center. She becomes romantically ...
Lloyd Henreid

Lloyd starts off as a petty criminal who, along with Andrew "Poke" Freeman, engages in a killing spree across Nevada, Arizona, and New Mexico resulting in six murders, Freemans death, and Lloyds detention in a Phoenix jail. Once the plague hits, people at...
Julie Lawry

An unstable, sex-crazed teenager who lives through the pandemic, she has sex with Nick Andros in the deserted store where they meet and then attempts to convince Nick to leave Tom Cullen behind. However, when she reveals her true nature, ridiculing Tom&ap...
Ralph Brentner

Ralph, an amiable Midwest farmer and United States Army veteran, meets Nick and Tom as their paths cross on a highway between Oklahoma and Nebraska, and together they form the first party to find Mother Abagail. Despite a lack of formal education, Ralph i...
Dayna Jurgens

A community college P.T. instructor from Xenia, Ohio, and one of the women whom Stus party rescues from the harem (in the uncut version). While she originally seems to display some romantic interest in Stu Redman, this does not extend beyond flirtation an...
United States Military

In The Stand the United States military is portrayed as being the main culprit behind the creation of Captain Trips. As well as being ultimately responsible for the destruction of modern civilization when the virus escapes from Project Blue. The military ...
Kojak

Glen Batemans dog, an Irish Setter, whom he adopted after his original master died of the superflu. Formerly named Big Steve, Kojak is a rare survivor of the flu which impacted dogs and horses as well as humans. When Glen leaves with Redman, Kojak i...