The main characters in The Runaway Jury by John Grisham are all unique and deeply thought out. This book is quite unique in a way because it has an abundance of deeper characters. What I mean by this is that we know more about each character than you would most books. Each character has an obvious opinion, personality, and ideology along with a complete background story provided through Fitch and his investigations of most of the characters.

I definitely like Nicholas as a character because he’s not your average bear. He’s extremely intelligent given his college and law school experience along with his cunning social skills, however we don’t know a whole lot more than that. We don’t know much about his childhood, what he’s done in the two or so years preceding the book, and we don’t know where his income or money is really coming from. So I do like Nicholas as a character however he is kind of shady.

I also think Fitch is a pretty comical character. He always tries to be harsh and serious throughout the book while also possessing a quick temper making it quite hysterical when things don’t go his way. He is also easily manipulated and gullible as shown many times throughout the book and especially around the ending, which again leads to more of his fits.

The one thing I don’t like concerning the characters is the lack of information on some of them. Although we know the general information of most characters, we seem to be lacking certain specifics even at the end of the book. Some of the things missing are like the a fore mentioned problems with Nicholas and his recent past and other information of this sort.