Rain Character Analysis in Old School

Rain attends the nearby all-girls school, Miss Cobb’s. The narrator and Rain dance very closely at one of their joint dances, until a monitor makes them stop. Just after this, the narrator sees Rain making out with one of his classmates, Jack Broome. Rain then spots the narrator on the train home for Christmas vacation and is excited to see that he’s reading Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead. Later, she invites him to the final dance of the school year.

Rain Character Timeline in Old School

The timeline below shows where the character Rain appears in Old School. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.

Competition, Masculinity, and Pride Theme Icon

...narrator sees a group of girls from Miss Cobb’s Academy. One is a girl named Rain, with whom he danced during Halloween. After they were caught dancing too closely, he saw... (full context)

The narrator notices the passage that Rain had been reading, in which Dominique tells Roark that she wants to be sexually dominated... (full context)

...class is joining the boys for a Farewell Assembly, a dance notorious for its promiscuity. Rain wrote to the narrator to ask him to the dance. Additionally, if Purcell continues to... (full context)