The Schoolmaster
The elderly headmaster of the small, unnamed village school, and one of the story’s two protagonists. The story revolves around his interest in an abnormally large mole that once appeared in his village, and whose…
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The Narrator
The anonymous narrator, whose probing reflections, psychological analysis, and hindsight characterize Kafka’s story. The story offers few biographical details about the narrator, beyond the fact that he is a businessman who lives in an unnamed…
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The Scholar
With difficulty, the schoolmaster secures a meeting with the unnamed scholar in hopes of raising awareness about the existence of the mole. The scholar dismisses the schoolmaster’s fixation on the mole, however, jokingly explaining…
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