Who are the main characters in Red Riding Hood the book?

The characters that appear really depend upon what version of the story you are reading, however I would say that there are three characters that appear in every story of this type. There is of course Little Red Riding Hood herself and although her name changes in different cultures as far as I know this character is always a little girl. The second universal character is the Grandmother, the mother is also almost always a part of the story although I would not consider her a main character. The mother never appears in the story, she is only mentioned. The last universally mentioned character is that of the wolf. Depending on the story this character isn't always a wolf, I can think of a few stories where the wolf is portrayed as a bear and even one story where the role of the wolf was played by a dragon.