Under Milk Wood Characters

First Drowned is one of the deceased former shipmates who haunts Captain Cat’s dreams. First Drowned refers to himself as “Curly Bevan” and pesters Cat with questions about life among the living.

Second Drowned is one of the deceased former shipmates who haunts Captain Cat’s dreams. Second Drowned refers to himself as “Tom-Fred the donkeyman” and reminds Captain Cat that they once shared the same woman, Rosie Probert.

Rosie Probert is Captain Cat’s deceased former lover who visits him in his dreams. In Cat’s dreams, he and Rosie reminisce about their romance until Rosie eventually slips “into the darkness” of “forgetting,” which causes Cat to cry in his sleep.

Third Drowned is one of the deceased former shipmates who haunts Captain Cat’s dreams. He refers to himself as “Jonah Jarvis” and pesters Cat with questions about life among the living.

Fourth Drowned is one of the deceased former shipmates who haunts Captain Cat’s dreams. He refers to himself as “Alfred Pomeroy Jones” and pesters Cat with questions about life among the living.

Fifth Drowned is one of the deceased former shipmates who haunts Captain Cat’s dreams. He pesters Cat with questions about life among the living.

Jack Black is Llareggub’s cobbler. He delights in (and dreams about) venturing into Milk Wood to break up the sinful lovers’ trysts that take place there.

Mr. Waldo is Llareggub’s “rabbit catcher, barber, herbalist, cat doctor, quack.” He is an adulterous, alcoholic troublemaker who is having an affair with Polly Garter. Mr. Waldo dreams about his childhood and his many failed marriages.

Waldo’s wife is Blodwen Waldo. In Mr. Waldo’s dreams, his wife bemoans her miserable marriage and frets over what the neighbors will say about her adulterous husband.

Mr. Ogmore is one of Mrs. Ogmore-Pritchard’s deceased former husbands. He was a linoleum salesman when he was alive. Mrs. Ogmore-Pritchard dreams about nagging Mr. Ogmore and Mr. Pritchard, her other deceased husband.

Mr. Pritchard is one of Mrs. Ogmore-Pritchard’s deceased former husbands. A “failed bookmaker,” Pritchard committed suicide “ironically” by ingesting cleaning solution. Mrs. Ogmore-Pritchard dreams about nagging Mr. Pritchard and Mr. Ogmore, her other deceased husband.

Organ Morgan is Llareggub’s organist. He’s constantly practicing the organ, thinking about music, and admiring the classical masters, such as Bach and Palestrina. He prioritizes music over his wife, Mrs. Organ Morgan, whom he often ignores.

Mrs. Organ Morgan is Organ Morgan’s wife. She works at the town’s general store and feels ignored by her husband, who is too busy practicing the organ and thinking about music to listen to her.

Utah Watkins operates Salt Lake Farm, which is located on Llareggub Hill. He dreams of counting sheep that resemble his wife, Mrs. Utah Watkins.

Mrs. Utah Watkins is the wife of Utah Watkins. Her husband dreams of sheep that resemble her.

Ocky Milkman is Llareggub’s milkman. He dilutes his milk so much that Captain Cat humorously calls it “fresh as dew,” alluding to the milk’s watery consistency. Ocky dreams of pouring his milk into the river, regardless of the cost.

Mae Rose Cottage is Mrs. Rose Cottage’s oldest child. She is 17 years old and dreams of fanciful romances. She spends the day lying on Llareggub Hill, caressing herself and vowing to sin until she explodes, though, according to Captain Cat, she hasn’t had her first kiss.

Butcher Beynon is Llareggub’s butcher. He dreams of hunting “wild giblets.” He teases his wife, Mrs. Beynon, about the meats he sells, claiming they come from questionable sources like cats and dogs.

Mrs. Beynon is the wife of Butcher Beynon. She believes her husband when he teases her about the questionable source of the meats they eat, and she dreams that he is arrested for selling things like “owlmeat, dogs’ eyes, [and] manchop.”

Dai Bread is Llareggub’s baker. He has two wives, Mrs. Dai Bread One and Mrs. Dai Bread Two, but still dreams of “harems.”

Mrs. Dai Bread One is Dai Bread’s plain and simple first wife. Mrs. Dai Bread Two relays to her a vision she sees in her crystal ball, in which Dai Bread is in bed with two women.

Little Willy Weazel is Polly Garter’s lover who died many years ago. Polly mourns his death and sings songs about him as she completes her daily chores.

Lord Cut-Glass is a paranoid, elderly man who may be mentally ill. He dreams of ticking clocks, and his kitchen walls are adorned with 66 clocks, all set to a different time, in order to be alert enough to fend off potential intruders.

Mr. Pugh is Llareggub’s schoolmaster. He dreams about poisoning his unpleasant wife, Mrs. Pugh. Mr. Pugh fantasizes about killing Mrs. Pugh during the day as well, reading and taking notes on a book about famous poisoners.

Willy Nilly is Llareggub’s postman. He and his wife, Mrs. Willy Nilly, steam open and read the townspeople’s correspondence, and he shares the information he gleans from their snooping with the townspeople as he delivers the mail.

Mrs. Willy Nilly is the wife of Willy Nilly, Llareggub’s postman. She and Willy Nilly steam open and read the townspeople’s mail before Willy Nilly delivers it.

Cherry Owen is a drunkard and troublemaker who frequents Sailors Arms. He is married to Mrs. Cherry Owen, who eagerly informs him of the drunken antics he’s invariably too inebriated to remember himself.

Mrs. Cherry Owen is the wife of Cherry Owen. The Owens have a happy marriage, and Mrs. Cherry Owen takes pleasure in telling her husband all about the drunken antics he can’t recall on his own.

Evans the Death is Llareggub’s undertaker. He dreams of a childhood memory of stealing currants from his mother and is afraid of his own mortality.

Bessie Bighead is a homely woman who works for Mr. Utah Watkins at Salt Lake Farm. She dreams of the deceased Gomer Owen, who was her only kiss, though he only kissed her on a dare. Bessie was conceived in Milk Wood and born in a barn.

Gwennie is a young schoolgirl who orders the schoolboys to kiss her “where she says” or give her a penny. When a boy named Dicky refuses to kiss Gwennie in Milk Wood and doesn’t have a penny to offer her instead, the children chase him down the hill.

Dicky is a schoolboy who refuses Gwennie’s order to kiss her in Milk Wood, citing his mother’s disapproval. When Dicky doesn’t have a penny to offer Gwennie instead, the children chase him down the hill.

PC (Police Constable) Attila Rees is a local policeman. He dreams of relieving himself in his helmet and knows he’ll regret it in the morning.

Mr. and Mrs. Floyd, the cocklers, are an elderly couple who don’t dream and sleep “like two old kippers in a box.”