page_title: A Painted House
section_title: Main characters
hierarchical_section_title: A Painted House / Main characters
caption_attribution_description: A Painted House is a John Grisham novel. This house in Lepanto, Arkansas and the city of Lepanto itself was the set for the Hallmark Hall of Fame movie.
context_page_description: A Painted House is a 2001 novel by American author John Grisham. It was made into a television film in 2003, starring Scott Glenn and Logan Lerman.
  Inspired by his childhood in Arkansas, it is Grisham's first major work outside the legal thriller genre in which he established himself. Set in the late summer and early fall of 1952, its story is told through the eyes of seven-year-old Luke Chandler, the youngest in a family of cotton farmers struggling to harvest their crop and earn enough to settle their debts. The novel portrays the experiences that bring him from a world of innocence into one of harsh reality.
context_section_description: Luke Chandler – the youngest in the family and the protagonist of the story.
  Eli "Pappy" Chandler – Luke's highly respected and hard-working grandfather and patriarch of the family. He is a World War I veteran.
  Ruth "Gran" Chandler – Luke's quiet, conservative, and wise grandmother who prays for the safe return of her younger son, Ricky, from the Korean War.
  Jesse Chandler – Luke's father, who served in World War II (during which he suffered a debilitating injury), and struggles to help his father erase the family's debt.
  Kathleen Chandler – Luke's mother, who tends to the garden while dreaming of a better life in a suburban home with indoor plumbing and modern conveniences.
  Hank Spruill – the 'hill people' family's oldest son, boastful and quick to offer violence to anyone who offends him.
  Tally Spruill – the seventeen-year-old daughter in the migrant worker family.
  Trot Spruill – the youngest Spruill, who suffers from a crippled arm. He is also mentally slow, and is the only member of the family, other than his sister Tally, to whom Hank is never cruel.
  Cowboy – the Mexican who kills Hank, carries a switchblade and is quick to use it.
caption: This house in Lepanto, Arkansas was the house used in the Hallmark Hall of Fame movie A Painted House
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