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Thomas is a rich man that adopted Jack as a baby and charges him with the guardianship of Cecily. Though he ever actually appeared as a character on the play, he’s referenced a few times.

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Miss Prism is Cecily’s governess. Miss Prism is an endless source of pedantic bromides and cliches. She highly approves of Jack’s presumed respectability and harshly criticizes his “unfortunate” brother. Miss Prism speaks of having once written a novel whose manuscript was “lost” or “abandoned.” Also, she entertains romantic feelings for Dr. Chasuble.

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Cecily is Jack’s ward, the granddaughter of the old gentlemen who found and adopted Jack when Jack was a baby. Cecily is probably the most realistically drawn character in the play. Like Gwendolen, she is obsessed with the name Ernest, but she is even more intrigued by the idea of wickedness.

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Bracknell is Algernons snobbish,mercenary, and domineering aunt and Gwendolyn’s mother. Lady Bracknell married well, and her primary  goal in life I to see her daughter do the same. Lady Bracknell values ignorance, which she sees as “a delicate exotic fruit”

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Gwendolyn is Algernon’s cousin and Lady Bracknell’s daughter. Gwendolyn is in love with jack, whom she knows as Ernest. A model and arbiter of high fashion and society. She is sophisticated, intellectual, cosmopolitan, and utterly pretentious. Gwendolyn is dead set on the name Ernest, she claims she will not marry someone without that name.

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Jack Worthing is a seemingly responsible and respectable young man who leads a double life. In Hertfordshire, where he has a county estate, Jack is known as Jack. In London he is known as Earnest. Jack is in love with his friend Algernon’s cousin Gwendolyn.

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He is a charming, idle, decorative bachelor, nephew of Lady Bracknell, cousin of Gwendolyn Fairfax, and best friend of Jack Worthing.

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The Importance of Being Earnest