57 pages • 1 hour read
Stephen KingA modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more.
The primary protagonist of the novel (and The Dark Tower series), Roland Deschain is a tall, lean man of indeterminate age with a chiseled face and blue eyes. He’s depicted like a movie cowboy and is distinctly patterned after actor Clint Eastwood in Westerns such as The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966). Often referred to as “the gunslinger,” Roland wears his gun belt and holsters around his waist and is a lightning-quick shot. His world is Mid-World, the only realm from which the Dark Tower is reachable. Mid-World is close to the readers’ world but is far behind technologically. As a gunslinger, Roland knows High Speech, the sacred language of warriors, but also uses Low Speech, or the common tongue. Both languages are close to real-world English but contain new elements and words. Roland’s expressions appear old-fashioned and idiomatic, such as “You have forgotten the face of your father” (xx). Roland represents the Death card that the man in black drew in the first novel in the series, The Gunslinger. This implies that Roland will deal death to the unjust and the evil.
In The Drawing of the Three, Roland is ill for most of the plot, having lost two of the fingers of his right hand as well as his right big toe in a creature attack and sustained an infection.
By Stephen King
11.22.63
Stephen King
1408
Stephen King
Bag of Bones
Stephen King
Billy Summers
Stephen King
Carrie
Stephen King
Children of the Corn
Stephen King
Cujo
Stephen King
Different Seasons
Stephen King
Doctor Sleep
Stephen King
Dolores Claiborne
Stephen King
Duma Key
Stephen King
Elevation: A Novel
Stephen King
End of Watch
Stephen King
Fairy Tale
Stephen King
Finders Keepers
Stephen King
Firestarter
Stephen King
From a Buick 8
Stephen King
Full Dark, No Stars
Stephen King
Gerald's Game
Stephen King
Gwendy's Button Box
Stephen King, Richard Chizmar
Action & Adventure
View Collection
Challenging Authority
View Collection
Community
View Collection
Fate
View Collection
Forgiveness
View Collection
Friendship
View Collection
Good & Evil
View Collection
Loyalty & Betrayal
View Collection
Mortality & Death
View Collection
Order & Chaos
View Collection
Power
View Collection
Safety & Danger
View Collection
Trust & Doubt
View Collection
Valentine's Day Reads: The Theme of Love
View Collection
Westerns
View Collection