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- Briony = Patheteic, jealous girl who wants to control the people and events around her but ends up betraying her sister and Robbie.
- Cecilia = A typical 20-something girl who is finishing university.
- Robbie = Poor man who went to Cambridge due to the absence of the ever absent Mr Tallis
- Lola = Confidant, acts older than she is
- Paul Marshall = Privileged, wealthy student
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- Briony = McEwan presents the girl to create her own role in the story that she writes based on the events of one night. However, it is revealed that only one event happened, the others were changed and created
- Cecilia = She realises her love for her childhood friend Robbie and develops their relationship
- Robbie = Expendable pawn in Briony's view.
- Lola = Victim to Briony's hatred & jealousy and to Paul Marshall's hormones
- Paul Marshall = Takes advantage of his status, "seemed to dismiss him" in regards to Lola and the police officers
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- Briony = There is no development. She would like to think and to convince the reader that she atones but she does not learn from her 'mistake' and continues to do anything but atone
- Cecilia = Went from a lonely girl to a girl in love. However, this is ripped from her due to Briony's meddling
- Robbie = Shy, to being presented to being over confidant in Briony's story.
- Lola = Went from a confidant young woman to a victimised woman who "married her ******" and became wealthy and successful off of Paul Marshall's "Ammo Bar" profits
- Paul Marshall = Appears harmless but is actually very harmful
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- Briony = The extent of her OCD drives her to control the lives around her. She writes a book to atone for her sins and to get her sister to forgive her even though Cecilia is dead
- Cecilia = Punished for allowing Robbie to further transgress the boundaries of the social classes. Dies tragically provides lack of justice
- Robbie = Tragically killed by McEwan in France, just before he got to Dunkirk. Possibly punished for transgressing the class boundaries to be with Cecilia providing a lack of justice
- Lola = Lives as long as Briony and Paul Marshall, lack of justice for her
- Paul Marshall = Never punished for his crimes, an indictment of the society he lives in
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