Who Are We Working With Part 1

One way that my book is a special snowflake, is that none of the characters ever receive a name. It's even mentioned that they will never be identified, because what's the use of putting a name to a face if you can't see.
Let's start in order of appearance with some bias on importance to me.
*This includes spoilers*

The First Blind Man

The first blind man goes blind first. He goes blind at a traffic light, and when people come to help him out of his car, he infects all of them. All of the people who helped him are now infected, and so all people in contact with any of them including the first blind man with become infected and so on and so forth. However, he is also the first to regain his sight at the end of the novel. What he represents as a character to me is how quickly things can spread. He's not a centrifugal character, but hey he lives.

The Car Thief

This guy doesn't live long so he can't be that important right? Wrong. The car thief is one of the people to help the first blind man. He is doomed from the start, but to make matters worse he robs the blind man of his car. A few hours later while driving he also goes blind and must wait for the police to pick his sorry ass up. Since all the first people to go blind go to the quarantine, the thief is reunited with the man he robs. They fight, and now everyone's in a bad mood. The car thief later gropes the girl with the dark glasses in the hall and she stabs him with her heel. This wound gets infected, the car thief thinks about his life in dying agony. He regrets stealing the car from the blind man, but is also mad because he was helping him at first. Surprisingly,  he doesn't die from the disgusting puss filled infection. No, he crawls his way to the guarded gate in the night to beg for medicine and gets gunned down by the soldiers. His significance is in how he was one of the first characters to really reflect on the blindness. He also was important in showing the ignorance and fear of the guards who empty their guns on him because they don't want to be blind too.

The Doctor

The doctor becomes one of the most important characters.  He's level-headed, kind, and diplomatic. However he also is kinda a pretentious jerk. The doctor goes blind helping the first blind man figure out why he is blind. He goes home after the examination, and reads more about eyes and blindness to help. While researching he goes blind. He doesn't tell his wife, he just slips into bed and wakes up the next morning still blinded by the white ocean. This is were I think he's a jerk. For instance, no

                    "Hey honey look, I was helping this guy who was blind and apparently its super infectious and well I didn't wanna wake you up but I doomed you because I didn't want to wake you up. Love you!" For real. He knows that he sentenced his wife to blindness as well with no clear cure. He feels bad in the morning, but that night he made some selfish decisions. Anyway, because the majority of people in the institute know the doctor and are patients of him he becomes a leader of the group of blind. The blind leading the blind.  The doctor is compassionate and makes good decisions, but people early on take advantage of that. Some people take others rations of food and a simple slap on the wrist from the doctor will not solve the problem. He quickly becomes overwhelmed by the flow of people turning blind, and the animalistic qualities people develop in order to survive.  What is important to know about the doctor is his reliance to lead based on the sight his wife retains. He tries to protect her by keeping her sight secret so she won't become a slave to the bidding of the needy blind, but he is extremely dependent. 

Catch up with: The Doctor's Wife, the Girl with the Dark Glasses, King of Ward 3, and the Man with the Black Eye-patch in the next part.