Characters

The young man radiates love

The main character in the short story “The Man Who Loved Flowers” by Stephen King is the young man. The first characteristic we notice about him is that he seems to be very much in love. For instance, we learn that he is “walking with a bounce in his step and that same half-smile on his lips” (p. 175, ll. 21-22). His face has an “expression of eager expectation” (p. 176, l. 21). The expression on his face makes people notice him, and they all think that he looks sweet and very much in love. 

It is perhaps no coincidence that the majority of the people who notice the young man are women: an old lady (p. 175, l. 7), “two women outside the washateria” (p. 179, ll. 10-11), “two teen-aged girls” (p. 179, l. 17), and a middle-aged married woman (p. 180, l. 29). Not realising that he is ...