Tristram Shandy is the narrator and main protagonist of the story. He is an ill-fated nonentity who is not even born until halfway of the novel.Mrs. Shandy, Tristram´s mother, should be a rational and stubborn woman as a Tristram´s description says. In Tristram's father´s mind his wife is the stereotypical sentimentalist woman.Walter Shandy is Tristram's father. He has a passionate interest in philosophy and intellectual speculation, he chooses a name Trismegistus in honor of his favorite philos...