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He decides to pursue the beautiful Nurse Nellie after previously avoiding such love affairs. Bill is very ego-driven and feels that he is wasting his time and accomplishing nothing in the South Pacific. Bill Harbison is the main character in "An Officer and a Gentleman" and appears in several other stories. Bill Harbisonappears in An Officer and a Gentleman, and Passion

In the story "The Airstrip at Konora," Billis is finally at work trying to build an airstrip there in a very short amount of time. Luther is an honorary member of this native tribe. Tony helps Luther to visit the native ceremonies on Vanicoro. Luther also appears in "A Boar's Tooth," and "The Airstrip at Konora." He is a Seabee construction worker as well as a so-called Big Dealer, who gets the assistance of the officer Tony Fry. Luther Billis is a Seabee and an enlisted man who first appears in the story "Dry Rot." He entertains Joe, the sailor who is stuck on a small atoll, and gets girls back in the United States to write letters to Joe. Seabee Luther Billisappears in Dry Rot, A Boar's Tooth and, The Airstrip at Konora Bus Adams is the center of many funny situations, typified by his role as the pilot of the Bouncing Belch, a disintegrating plane, as he helps Tony Fry seek whiskey supplies for Christmas. Bus makes an impression as an impulsive romantic when he has an affair with Latouche, the Frenchman's daughter, though Bus is married in civilian life. In the story "The Milk Run," he is rescued from a downed plane in the water at a huge expense in a funny story which shows the superior logistics in-depth of the US Navy. Bus is described as a blond and cocky pilot who lives day to day. Bus Adamsappears in The Milk Run, The Wine Mess at Segi Point, Those Who Fraternīus Adams is a Navy pilot and a major character of "The Milk Run," and "Those Who Fraternize" as well as other stories. This willingly to do more than expected actually leads to his death at the battle of Kuralei, where as beach-master, he could have stayed on the beach instead of going into a dangerous area with some Marines. Still, he is happy to go out on PT boat patrol and do other dangerous duties that he might have avoided. Tony is actually a courageous person, but often pretends to not be this, sometimes as a joke and sometimes on account of laziness. Charlesworth, in "the Cave, where Tony insults graduates of the Navy academy at Annapolis as the so-called trade-school boys. This is typified by Tony's conversations with Lt. Tony has the ability to be philosophical and questioning, which angers some of the career Navy types. He also has affairs with Lucy, the dim-witted girl of the so-called Bounty People in "Mutiny" and with the sharp-witted Latouche, who Tony ends up marrying. Tony is known for his ability to procure endless supplies of whiskey. Tony Fry is in many of the stories, from "Mutiny," to the report of his death in the last story. Tony Fryappears in Mutiny, The Wine Mess at Segi Point, Those Who Fraternize, A As explained in the first story "The South Pacific," the narrator is fascinated with people and tells stories both about situations he has been in and stories that he has heard from others. In the story "Alligator," the narrator describes himself as being an undistinguished average man, who is used as a courier for top-secret plans and is careful to not draw attention to himself. Perhaps the best characterization of the narrator is in the story "The Strike." There he makes clear that he, unlike Captain Kelley, knows what the objective of the next great offensive is, and the narrator brags of his association with various Admirals. Though he is on the scene at the plantation of the Frenchman's daughter, for example in the story about "Those Who Fraternize," he is not described as having an affair of his own with one of the women there. Though the narrator is almost always present, he is not developed as a character very much.

Thus, the narrator gets to meet the other major characters of the stories and tell the stories about them. He is an officer on Admiral Kester's staff who typically travels around and keeps in touch with various units. The narrator holds the story line together with his frequent changes in location and his presence in meetings with Admiral Kester on planning the battle of Kuralei and on winning the war. The Narrator, an unnamed Naval Officerappears in The South Pacific, Coral Sea, etc.