sentences:  There are seven main characters, including James (the narrator) and several other family members such as his mother, father, two brothers, cousin, uncle, three aunts, and his grandfather.The plot for "The Night The Bed Fell" starts with James Thurber's explaining his "interesting" family, including a crazy cousin that thinks he will die of suffocation during his sleep, an aunt who throws shoes down the house's hallway each night in an attempt to scare away burglars, and a grandfather that leaves the house for several days at a time before returning and discussing the Civil War as if it was still ongoing.One night when Thurber falls off of his army cot, his mother wakes up and comes to the immediate conclusion that the heavy headboard up in the attic had crashed down on the father, fatally injuring him.