Paul Edgecombe

Paul Edgecombe is the protagonist in the book The Green Mile. He is the supervisor at death row in a prison in Louisiana's Cold Mountain Penitentiary. He suffers from a horrendous urinary infection for most of the book. Towards the end, John Coffey, a criminal on the green mile, heals the infection. John also heals a few other people, and a mouse, throughout the book. Paul is the first-person narrator in the book. He narrates from a nursing home for half the book. He also discovers that John Coffey was innocent in  the murder and rape of the two little girls when he finds out that William Wharton was guilty.