<P> Cory becomes sick and Corrine agrees to take him to the hospital only after threats from Cathy . The next day, Corrine returns and tells them Cory died, allegedly from pneumonia . Without warning, their mother and Bart move out . Eavesdropping on the servants, Chris learns that Malcolm died and Olivia is now leaving out doughnuts sprinkled with rat poison in an attempt to clear the attic's "mouse" infestation . The three remaining children finally flee, catching a train to Florida . </P> <P> At the train station, Chris reveals he discovered Corrine's inheritance is conditional on her having no descendants, and she was poisoning them to secure her father's wealth . Chris and Cathy decide against contacting the police as their main concern is to stay together and protect Carrie who is still a minor . Chris assures Cathy that they can make a new life without their mother, but Cathy swears to exact revenge one day . </P> <Ul> <Li> Catherine Leigh "Cathy" Dollanganger: The protagonist and narrator of the novel . Cathy is the second child and older daughter of Christopher and Corrine . She becomes an accomplished ballerina and later a novelist . During their time in the attic, she falls in love with Chris, her brother . </Li> <Li> Christopher Garland "Chris" Dollanganger, Jr.: Older son and oldest child of Christopher and Corrine . Chris is the older brother of Cathy, Cory, and Carrie . He is an over-achiever and later becomes a doctor . During their time in the attic, he falls in love with Cathy . </Li> <Li> Cory Dollanganger: Twin brother of Carrie and younger brother of Cathy and Chris . The "quiet one" of the twins, Cory is introverted but musically talented . He becomes ill during their time in the attic and dies from arsenic poisoning at the hands of his mother . </Li> <Li> Carrie Dollanganger: Twin sister to Cory and the younger sister of Cathy and Chris . Prior to Cory's death, she is an extraverted girly girl, but after Cory dies she refuses to speak for months . </Li> <Li> Corrine Dollanganger (née Foxworth): Mother of Chris, Cathy, Cory, and Carrie and widow of Christopher Dollanganger . Eventually becomes an antagonist in the story when she tries to kill her children in order to gain her father's inheritance . She marries her father's attorney, Bart Winslow, later on and loses interest in her children and late husband . </Li> <Li> Bartholomew "Bart" Winslow: Second husband of Corrine . He is a trophy husband and marries her thinking that she doesn't have any children . Cathy is shocked to discover that he is eight years younger than Corrine . </Li> <Li> Olivia Foxworth (née Winfield): Wife of Malcolm Foxworth . Grandmother of the Dollanganger children . Cousin of John Amos . Olivia and Malcolm are co-antagonists in this book . </Li> <Li> Malcolm Foxworth: Father of Corrine and grandfather of the Dollanganger children . Husband of Olivia . He is described both as having a heart condition and as heartless, a symbolic paradox . He dies during the story, though Chris and Cathy do not learn this until the end . He was also the older half - brother of the children's father . </Li> <Li> Christopher Dollanganger, Sr.: Corrine's first husband; father of the children . He was Malcolm's younger half - brother, making him Corrine's half - uncle . He is described as a wonderful father who couldn't bear to be separated from his children for longer than five days . He is killed in a car accident on his birthday at the beginning of the book . </Li> <Li> John Amos: A butler to the Foxworth family . Chris overhears very horrible information from him during one of Chris' expeditions to steal from his mother . </Li> </Ul> <Li> Catherine Leigh "Cathy" Dollanganger: The protagonist and narrator of the novel . Cathy is the second child and older daughter of Christopher and Corrine . She becomes an accomplished ballerina and later a novelist . During their time in the attic, she falls in love with Chris, her brother . </Li>

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