Alice, Delilah, and Other Prostitutes (Frances Fisher, Anna Levine, and more)

Character Analysis

The prostitutes that work at Greely's (Skinny's billiards hall) play a pretty big role in the plot…even if they're best viewed as a collective force and not as individuals.

In fact, they're the first characters we meet in the film. After Delilah is cut, the women pool their money together and put the word out that they will pay anybody who kills Quick Mike and Davey $1,000. It is as a result of this bounty that the Kid comes looking for Will Munny, who eventually decides to come out of retirement.

Also, it's because of the prostitutes that Ned and the Kid are given a temporary safe haven and that Will is able to recover sufficiently so he can do the job. Let's not forget that it is also one of the prostitutes who tells Will what Little Bill has done to Ned. It could be argued that without this crucial piece of knowledge, Will wouldn't have learned of Ned's death until returning home to Kansas, if at all.

Basically: without the prostitutes, there would be no plot.