From the point of view of presentation the following story is the 3^rd person narration. The author of the story is not the direct participant of the events, he is just a commentator of the events.

The characters we meet in the story under analysis are:

-                     Miss Elsie Leeson, a young room hunter, the protagonist

-                     Mrs. Parker, landlady, the antagonist

-                     Mr. Skidder, playwriter

-                     Clara, maid

-                     Miss Longnecker, teacher

-                     Miss Dorn

-                     Mr. Evans

-                     Mr. Hoover

-                     Dr. William Jackson

The first character we meet is Mrs. Parker, the landlady, who is a bit snobbish. She is depicted in both direct and indirect ways. She considers herself to be of too high status, for example “Then you would manage to stammer forth the confession that you were neither a doctor nor a dentist. Mrs. Parker's manner of receiving the admission was such that you could never afterward entertain the same feeling toward your parents, who had neglected to train you up in one of the professions that fitted Mrs. Parker's parlours”. From these words we see that Mrs. Parker is snobbish, her main characteristic is that she wears mask as a stated type of behaviour for different conditions. The only thing which matters for her is money and her apartment. The smallest her room is her embarrassment.   She considers most of her lodgers not to be worth of living there. She is full of indifference. Even when the doctor comes to Miss Leeson, she remembers her name with troubles.  Also she was not satisfied with her new lodger: ” Mrs. Parker gave her the incredulous, pitying, sneering, icy stare that she kept for those who failed to qualify as doctors or dentists, and led the way to the second floor back” The snobbish landlady was insensitive to Miss Leeson. We should keep ourselves alert and sensitive to the needs of others.

We next meet Miss Leeson, a young typist who rents "the skylight room" because it is the only room she can afford. She is described in both direct and indirect ways. “She carried a typewriter made to be lugged around by a much larger lady. She was a very little girl, with eyes and hair that had kept on growing after she had stopped and that always looked as if they were saying: "Goodness me! Why didn't you keep up with us?” and because of her beauty, because of her charm the lodgers couldn’t help loving her. She is dreamy and optimistic one. She call the star “Billy Jackson” dreaming about the man who is ideal for her. Miss Leeson has an ideal of true love and romance in her mind and in her heart. She clings to this ideal even when she becomes destitute and is starving. She does not compromise. But according to the author, Miss Leeson is not created for the skylight room. She lives there because it is the only one she can afford. And when she was fired, she felt herself broken and depressive, she stopped dreaming, she began to disappoint in her dreams and the author says: ” Miss Longnecker must be right; it was Gamma, of the constellation Cassiopeia, and not Billy Jackson. And yet she could not let it be Gamma”. But Miss Leeson's dream comes true. Her prince rescues her. We shall assume that Dr. Jackson is a prince who is worth the wait.