WILLIAM GADDIS – DRAMATIS PERSONAE
(all the characters in all the novels)
compiled by Anja Zeidler
CHARACTER
A
Adolph
Adeline
Adeline
Afrikaner
"agent"
Al 1
Al 2
Alabama man
Ambers
Anatole
Angel,
Norman
Angel, Stella
Anselm
Anselm’s
mother
archeologist
Ardythe, Miss
Argentinean
Arnold
Aunt May
B
Baby
Bagby
Bag lady
Bailey, Bill
Barney
Basie, Harold
Bast, Anne
Bast,
Charlotte
Bast, Dick
Bast, Edward
Bast,
"Father"
DESCRIPTION and APPEARANCE
NOVEL
The executor of Voraker's estate.
A nurse Herschel knew and bit.
An acquaintance of Fuller, who has a daughter named Elsie.
A man who is thought to have shot Klinger.
Real estate agent, through whom the Booths got McCandless’ house.
Guitar-plunking friend of Rhoda.
Lily's Jewish husband.
"Alabama Rammer-Jammer man," the third man in advertisement with Ellery and
Morgie.
Black servant from Oscar's play.
Bartender at the hotel, where Otto doesn’t meet his father.
Manager of the Bast family's General Roll plant in Astoria and husband of Stella Angel.
CG
R
R
CG
CG
JR
F
R
Daughter of Thomas Bast, wife of Norman Angel.
A badly shaven poet with a thin face and a bad case of acne, who has changed his given
name Arthur to Anselm after Saint Anselm of Canterbury.
A “sweet little Boston woman" interested in dogs.
JR
R
A friend of Rev. Gwyon, who had once given a pair of ear-rings to Camilla.
The organist who “dropped stone dead at the keyboard with her sharp chin on a high D”
during Gwyon and Camilla’s wedding.
Argentine trade commissioner at the wrong party (Esther’s party).
A friend of Elisabeth.
Sister of the older Rev. Gwyon (Rev. Gwyon’s nameless father), a steadfast Calvinist
and Wyatt’s Christian mentor.
R
R
One-year-old child of the woman with bandaged wrists at Esther’s party, who is stolen
by Maude.
General Manager of Thomas' uncle in Oscar's play.
Sister of the homeless, who is drowned by fault of Rev. Ude.
Process server.
Barkeeper in a Lexington Avenue bar.
African-American con lawyer, who takes on Oscar's case
Unmarried aunt of Edward Bast and Stella Angel, sister of Julia, James and Thomas
Bast.
Deceased sister of Anne, Julia, James and Thomas Bast.
R
Deceased brother of "Father".
Composer and son of James Bast and Nellie; nephew of Anne and Julia Bast.
JR
JR
Deceased younger brother of Dick Bast, father of Anne, Julia, Charlotte, James and
Thomas Bast.
JR
1
F
R
JR
R
R
CG
R
F
CG
JR
R
F
JR
JR
Bast, James
Bast, Julia
Bast, Nellie
Bast, Reuben
Bast, Thomas
Beamish
Beard, the
Beaton
Begg, Edgar
Begg, Eunice
Begg, Judge
R.V.
Ben
Benny
Bernie
B.F.
Biff
Big Anna
Bildow, Don
Bildow, Mrs
Bildow, Miss
Bilk, Senator
Orney
Black, Frank
Blaufinger,
General
Blanfors,
Lettie
Boatwright,
Mr.
Bobbie
Bone, Judge
CJ
Booth,
Elisabeth
Booth, Paul
Booth, Mr.
Boston girl
Box, General
Boy, blond
Boy, haggard
Boy, Italian
Boy, little
Composer and father of Edward Bast, who is abroad for the duration of the novel.
Unmarried aunt of Edward Bast and Stella Angel, sister of Anne, James and Thomas
Bast.
Married Thomas after his first wife's death, cohabited with James Bast, mother of
Edward, commits suicide.
Orphan, musical prodigy of James Bast.
Father of Stella Angel and president of General Roll Co.
Lawyer for Triangle Paper Products and the Schramm family.
A friend of Esme with a black beard.
Typhon's corporate secretary and general counsel.
Park Commissioner in Union Falls.
Eagle Mills stockholder who sues J R after his takeover of the company.
Judge in Union Falls, presiding over the action which dissolves the outstanding stock of
Eagle Mills.
Lawyer for Jack Gibbs.
Employee in architectural office with Wyatt, later in advertising with Ellery, commits
suicide.
Fat husband of woman with ring, in yellow and brown necktie at the zoo, reappearing in
Spain.
Ellery's colleague in advertising.
“This old locker room guy” from Billy Voraker's school days.
Swede at Esther's party.
The editor of a little magazine (The Magazine).
Don Bildow‘s wife.
The six-year-old daughter of the Bildows, left by her baby sitter Anselm at some show.
A "Neanderthal senator" from Stinking Creek.
JR
JR
Washington lawyer who functions as an unregistered lobbyist for Typhon.
Led the German troops against the Allies at St. Fiacre in the Ardennes.
JR
JR
Acquaintance of Trish Hemsley and customer of beauty doctor Kissinger.
F
The Crease family's old plumber, invented by Oscar.
F
Lily's brother, who is killed in a car accident driving his Porsche.
Judge on the Second Circuit bench.
F
F
The asthmatic thirty-three-year old daughter of mineral tycoon F R Vorakers, Paul
Booth's wife.
Elisabeth Booth's husband, Vietnam veteran, now working as media consultant.
Paul Booth's father, who thinks little of his own son.
Tall light-haired girl with Boston accent at Esther’s party.
Led Allied troops against Blaufinger at St. Fiacre, director of Typhon International.
At Viareggio’s.
CG, F
At Viareggio‘s with a “haggard face.”
A chinless boy from Sicily at Max‘s party, cousin of dark tall girl at Viareggio‘s.
At the zoo, in front of the polar bear cage.
R
R
R
2
JR
JR
JR
JR
R
JR
JR
JR
JR
JR
R
R
R
CG
R
R
R
F
CG, F
CG
R
JR
R
Boy, red cap
At Viareggio‘s.
R
Boy, at the
zoo
"Boy"
"boy"
boys
Bredford,
Robert
Bunker
Button
di Brescia,
Conte
di Brescia,
Seraphina
Brian
Boy in a boy scout uniform in the lion house at the zoo.
R
Paul Booth’s son of a Vietnamese woman.
A lover of Trish, half her age, trying to be a writer.
Playing with a dead pigeon at the beginning of the novel.
Actor, playing the role of Randal in Kiester's film.
CG
F
CG
F
Trish's lawyer, whom she wants to marry, twice her age.
An "old buddy" from Basie's days at the Federal prison, who learnt acting there.
An Italian collector, who sold Bosch’s Seven Sins painting to Reverend Gwyon.
F
F
R
Tall dark woman Big Anna looks for at costume party, the timid Italian boy is her
cousin.
A friend of Irene McCandless, who triggered McCandless’ jealousy, wants to go to
Yucatán to live with the Indians.
Spokesman for Wagner Funeral Homes.
Brisboy
Brisboy, Mrs. Brisboy's mother, compared to Cosima Wagner.
Tall white-haired man in gray on Brown’s party, a member of the Royal Academy.
British, R.A.
Man at the costume party.
Bronzino
Member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, involved in Typhon's machination in
Broos,
Gandia.
Senator
Brown, Buster A twenty-three or twenty-eight-year-old writer.
A businessman, publisher, collector, dealer, engaging Wyatt as forger of old paintings.
Brown,
Recktall
Secretary at Typhon International.
Bulcke, Miss
One of Edie's lovers, who went off with all her traveler checks.
Burmese
Student at J R's Junior High School, killed in Hyde's car crashing into diCephalis.
Buzzie
Byron, Sonny Young black man at Max‘s party, accompanied Buster Brown.
C
Driving Valentine and Wyatt.
Cab driver
The captain of the Purdue Victory.
Captain
Character in the Kiester film, the mines manager.
Carlucci
Secretary at Typhon International.
Carol
R
CG
JR
JR
R
R
JR
R
R
JR
CG
JR
R
R
R
F
JR
Cates, Gov.
John
Chick
Amy Joubert's eighty-year-old great uncle, director of Typhon International.
JR
Paul's RTO (radiotelephone operator) in Vietnam.
CG
Chevitz
Chichester,
Dr.
Chigger
Settling a suit against Kiester.
Harry's dentist.
F
F
Crew chief in Vietnam, who tried to kill Paul by rolling a hand grenade under his bed
after Paul had turned him in for heroin.
CG
Child eating
rose
Chin, Doris
Christiane
Eighteen-month-year-old wet-nosed child seen by Wyatt and Valentine at the zoo in
front of the seal pool.
Feature writer.
Blond model sitting for Wyatt in Paris.
R
3
CG
R
Cibo
Cleaning
women
Cobb, Ira
Coen
Coops, Hoddy
Cowpie
Crawley
Crease,
Justice
Crease,
Captain (later
Justice)
Thomas
Crease, Oscar
L.
Crémer
Critic
Cross-eyed
girl
Crotcher, Mr.
Cruikshank
Cutler,
Richard
D
"Dad"
Dalner
Darling,
Morgie
daughter
Davidoff,
David
Davis, Ziff
Dé, Doctor
Decker, W.
Deleserea
Deigh, Agnes
Deigh, Harry
Deigh, Mrs.
Deigh, Mr.
DiCephalis,
Ann
DiCephalis,
Dan
DiCephalis,
Donny
DiCephalis,
Businessman, becomes President of Catania Paving.
Cleaning woman at Otto's place in Central America.
JR
R
Neighbor of the Bast family in Indiana.
Lawyer for Norman Angel and General Roll Company.
Billey Fickert's husband after Earl left for Mississippi.
Buddhist friend of Billy from Akron.
Stockbroker, of Crawley & Bro.
Oscar's and Christina's father and a heavy smoker.
JR
JR
F
CG
JR
F
Oscar's grandfather, who fought in the Civil War (Seventeenth Regiment Army of
Northern Virginia), was wounded at Ball's Bluff and Antietam, later became a member
of the Holmes Court and died at age 96.
F
Christina's step brother, son of Judge Thomas Crease and Winifred Riding, his first
wife, lecturer in American history at the community college at Lotusville and writer of
an unsuccessful play.
Art critic, who writes for La Macule and knows Recktall Brown from the army.
Tall man in green wool shirt, who looks like "a rather unfortunate print of Mozart."
Little cross-eyed girl in long white stockings, raped and killed when eleven years old,
lying next to Camilla on the church yard of San Zwingli.
A writer, who has translated his book on ant life into nineteen languages.
Lester’s Chief of Station (COS) in Matidi.
Typhon employee, who eventually marries Amy Joubert.
F
A transient living with Dan and Ann diCephalis, each of whom believes him to be the
other's father.
Owner of Dalner Gallery.
Advertisement man, from Yale.
JR
Daughter of Pastora and Wyatt.
Director of public relations for Typhon, then for J R Family of Companies.
R
JR
Actor in Kiester's Civil War film.
Defense Minister of Gandia, member of Idi tribe from Uaso province.
Scam artist posing as an underwriter.
African-American domestic employed by Zona Selk.
Literary agent, mother to every fairy in the city, attempts suicide.
Agnes Deigh's husband, who dies falling off a bar stool in Hollywood.
Agnes’ mother, who lives in Rome on the via Flaminia.
Agnes‘s brother, a writer, missed in WWII.
Wife of J R's school psychometrician.
F
JR
JR
JR
R
R
R
R
JR
Psychometrician at J R's school, he is lost in Teletravel transmission.
JR
Son of Ann and Dan DiCephalis.
JR
Daughter of Ann and Dan DiCephalis.
JR
4
R
R
R
R
CG
JR
R
R
Nora
Delivery man
Dick
Dickens,
Charles
Mrs. Dickens
Doris
Dorman, Mrs.
Drovie, Bill
Drucker
Drunkard
Duchess of
Ohio
Duncan,
Isadore
Duncan,
Mister
Duncan, Vida
E
editor
Edna Mims
Delivers Oscars wine.
Young minister replacing Reverend Gwyon.
He is called Charley and has guilt feelings for dropping an atomic bomb, has a silver
plate in his head.
Charles’s mother, a Christian Scientist.
Harry Lutz's secretary.
A boarding-house keeper, singing in the church of Rev. Gwyon.
Deputy U.S. Marshall.
Paul’s fellow soldier in Vietnam with a collection of ears.
Talking to John in the bar and to Valentine at the corner of Gansevoort Street.
Someone at Esther’s party.
F
R
R
Head of wallpaper firm and Edward Bast's hospital roommate.
JR
Head of Duncan and Company book publishers.
JR
Classmate of Zona Selk, wife of book publisher Duncan.
JR
R
F
R
JR
CG
R
R
Editor of Esther’s book, married to the tall woman.
Girl with whom Otto used to go out in College (Radcliffe), then Max‘s girl friend,
working for Brown.
Four-year-old son of Thomas and Marian Eigen.
Eigen, David
Eigen, Marian Wife of Thomas Eigen.
Writer who shares the Ninety-Sixth apartment with Gibbs, working as speech writer.
Eigen,
Thomas
Advertising man, Esther‘s lover.
Ellery
Daughter of Adeline, Fuller‘s acquaintance, died at age of three.
Elsie
Woman at Trish's cleaner.
Employeé at
cleaners
Big unshaven man, who looks like Ernest Hemingway
Ernie
R
R
Poet and Wyatt's model, working for Brown, dies of a staphylococcic infection from
kissing Saint-Peter-in-the-Boat.
Wife of Wyatt.
Monk at the Real Monasterio de Nuestra Senora de la Otra Vez in times past.
Monk at the Real Monasterio de Nuestra Senora de la Otra Vez when Wyatt Gwyon
stays there.
R
German woman who wants her daughter to be canonized by Don Sucio.
R
Patient at the asylum where Reverend Gwyon stays.
Someone Agnes knows in Rome, who has his own chapel beside the Vatican.
R
R
He studied with Otto at Harvard and is Max in Otto‘s play.
Ed Feasley’s father, owner of battleships.
Ed Feasley’s mother.
Official with the Teacher's Union.
“Poet” to be published soon.
Wife of Mr Feddle.
5
R
R
R
JR
R
R
Esme
Esther
Eulalio, Fr. 1
Eulalio, Fr. 2
F
Fahrtmesser,
Frau
Mr Farisy
Fé,
Monseigneur
Feasley, Ed
Feasley, Mr.
Feasley, Mrs.
Fedders, Mr.
Feddle
Feddle, Mrs
JR
JR
JR
R
R
F
R
R
R
R
Fell, Dr.
Fickert, Billey
Fickert, Earl
Fickert,
Wayne
Flesch, Miss
Florence
Flower-Cart
Man
Ford
Frank
Franks, Jesse
Frenchman
Frika, Anga
Friend of
Benny
Fuller
G
Gall
Ganganelli
Gates, Pearly
Gench, Barry
George
Gibbs, Jack
Gibbs, Rose
Ginny
Giono
Giulielma
Girl,
bandaged
Girl, dark
Girl, flat
Girl, green
tongue
Girl, little
colored
Girl, little
Little girl at
the zoo
Girl, pale
Girl, small
Doctor mistreating Wyatt, also Otto.
Mother of Wayne Fickert, who is going to play a role in a movie called “The Wayne
Fickert Story.”
Father of Wayne Fickert running a junkyard in Mississippi.
Nine year old son of Billey and Earl Fickert, who drowns during baptism by Reverend
Ude in South Carolina's Pee Dee river.
Teacher and "curriculum specialist" at J R's school, later hired by Davidoff as "project
director."
Secretary at Typhon International.
Selling Lilies to Wyatt.
R
CG, F
"Program Specialist" for the Foundation.
Friend of Rudy.
Tattooed man Otto knows in Central America:
JR
R
R
Frenchman from Lyon at Brown’s party.
Female leading role in Kiester's film.
A friend of Benny from school, who has written a history of the player piano.
R
F
R
Recktall Brown‘s servant from Barbados.
R
From the Foundation, working on a book about educational TV programming in
schools.
Partner in the law firm of Ganganelli, Pecci and Peretti.
The baritone who accompanies Rev. Ude's sermon at the grave of Wayne Fickert.
Film student at UCLA, who charges Kiester on behalf of the sledgehammer scene in the
film "Uruburu."
Round-headed salesman acquainted with Max, reading Otto‘s play.
Teaches physics at J R's school, writer.
Jack Gibb's daughter.
Mollenhoff's secretary at Endo Appliance.
Italian boy the Swede wants to adopt.
Character from Oscar's play, wife of Thomas there.
A Catholic at Esther's party with both wrists bandaged, her husband a writer.
JR
Dark girl at Bella Vista hotel serving lunch to Otto.
A girl at Max's party.
A girl at Esther’s party.
R
R
R
Man in purple dress at costume party.
R
Seven year old girl from the apartment below Esther’s, fetching sleeping pills for her
mother, who later dies.
Girl in front of polar bear cage.
R
A girl seen by Stanley in Rome reading Forster.
Smallest of three girls at the zoo, who loses her balloon.
R
R
6
CG, F
CG, F
JR
JR
R
JR
CG
F
R
JR
JR
JR
R
F
R
R
girl
Glancy
Gold, Mr.
A girl looking for her black dog.
Teaches sixth grade math at J R's school.
Someone pretending to work at Saks phoning to tell Elisabeth her purse had been found,
presumably involved in robbery at the house.
Character in Otto‘s novel.
Works at a Cadillac dealership in Massapequa.
Insurance man from Ace Worldwide Fidelity.
Gordon
Gottlieb, Mr.
Gribble,
Frank
Grimes, Cissie Mother of Edie Grimes.
Elisabeth’s childhood friend.
Grimes, Edie
Father of Edie Grimes, successor of VCR, on the board of the airline and airline's
Grimes, Mr.
insurance company, whose plane crashes with Elisabeth Booth injured.
Edie's sister.
Grimes,
Squeekie
Lawyer.
Grissom
Grocery man Delivering Elisabeth's order for dinner with McCandless.
Pseudonym concocted by Gibbs for purposes of financial evasion.
Grynszpan,
Hyman
Writer at Esther’s party.
Guest of
honor
A friend of Elisabeth, who wanted to become a great actor.
Guy from
Florida
Character in McCandless’ novel based on Irene.
Gwen
Gwyon boy
Gwyon,
Camilla
Gwyon, John
H.
Gwyon, Rev.
Gwyon,
Reverend
Gwyon, Wyatt
H
Hadrian
Haight,
Father
Haight,
General
Hall, Albert
Hall, Victoria
Han
Handler,
Doctor
Hannah
"Harry's
father"
Heavy-necked
person
CG
JR
CG
R
JR
F
CG
CG, F
CG
CG
CG
CG
JR
R
CG
CG
Had taken his life by drowning when nine years old.
Rev. Gwyon‘s wife, dying of appendicitis on voyage to Spain.
R
R
18th century ancestor of the Gwyon family, killed by "disaffectionate Indians.”
R
Father of Rev. Gwyon and brother of Aunt May.
Camilla‘s husband, Wyatt‘s father, minister at the First Congregational Church, dies in
an asylum.
Son of Camilla and Rev. Gwyon, painter.
R
R
Mrs. Deigh’s aging bull terrier.
Works at parochial school in Massapequa.
R
JR
Two-star Army general, brother of Father Haight.
JR
Husband of Victoria Hall at Esther's party.
Wife of Albert Hall at Esther's party.
Boy Wyatt knew from Munich, whom he later kills in self defense in Africa.
Cate's doctor and former classmate.
R
R
R
JR
Plainly unattractive Village artist and amateur psychologist.
Harry's image of a father made up for Oscar.
R
F
Someone from the movies having lunch with Esme.
R
7
R
Hebble,
Bertha
Hemsely, Miss
Hemsley, Mrs
Hemsley,
Trish
Hemsley, T J
Hermoso,
senor
Heracles
Herschel
Holmes,
Justice Oliver
Wendell
Hopper,
Bunky
Hopper, Fred
Housekeeper
Huki-Lau
Hyde boy
Hyde, Major
I
Ilse
Ilse's sister
Inch, Miss
Mister
Inononu
Irene
Israel, John
J
Jake
James B.
James B.'s
father
Janet
Jacqueson,
Deedee
Jean
Jeannie
Jenner, Mr.
Jerry
Jheejheeboy
Jim
John
Jones, R.L.
Joubert,
Emily
Cleaning woman at the zoo.
R
Trish's daughter, called Deedee, has a breakdown, cuts her wrists.
Mother of Trish, who had been converted by Bishop Sheed.
Christina's rich friend from school.
F
F
F
Trish's son of about ten.
Language teacher in Spain, who also runs a drugstore in San Zwingli.
F
R
Tailless barbary ape from Gibraltar, later killed by Gwyon.
A good looking man from Ohio, becomes movie star and marries Adeline Thing.
Friend of Thomas Crease during the days of the Civil War, later associate on the
Holmes Court.
R
R
F
Son of Fred Hopper.
JR
President of bank that takes over the receivership of Eagle Mills.
One of the housekeepers Christina got for Oscar.
Hawaiian poodle dog wearing a chastity belt against the naughty Spanish doggies.
J R's closest friend, son of Major Hyde.
Employee at Typhon subsidiary Endo Appliance, member of school board.
JR
F
R
JR
JR
Housekeeper with white columnar thighs, employed after Oscar's return from hospital.
From the Bronx, briefly moving in with Ilse.
Nurse at asylum where Revernd Gwyon stays.
Hungarian secret agent, later appearing under the name of Dr. Kuvetli.
F
F
R
R
McCandless’s second wife, who left him two years before the novel’s opening.
Character from Oscar's play, "our 'noble savage'" who runs away and returns at the end
of the play.
CG
F
The major's son in Kiester's film.
Seven-year-old African-American boy, owner of the dog Spot.
James' guardian ad litem, owner of a junk yard.
F
F
F
A servant in Rev. Gwyon's household, who was born a few minutes after her mother‘s
death.
Wife of the critic in the green wool shirt.
R
Blonde at the hotel bar where Otto wants to meet his father.
Woman from Du Point Circle McCandless knew.
Patient in Bellevue hospital, where Agnes Deigh is staying.
News-vendor near Mr. Pivner‘s apartment.
Indian ex-husband of Edie.
Employee at the hospital, where Oscar Crease stays.
Priest,who studied with Wyatt.
Man from Sun Style Films.
Teaches social studies at J R's school, married to, but separated from Lucien Joubert,
daughter of Monty Moncrieff.
R
CG
R
R
CG, F
F
R
R
JR
8
R
Joubert,
Francis
Joubert,
Lucien
K
Kane
Kevin
Kiester,
Constantine
kid
Kinkead,
Frank
Kissinger, Dr.
Klinger
Knize, John
Koppel, Herr
Kowalski
L
Landsteiner
Law clerk
Lea
Leak, James
Lemp, Mr.
Leo
Lepidus, Sam
Leroy
Lester
Leva, Ben F.
Lily
Lily
Lily's
girlfriend
Lily's first
lawyer
Lily's second
lawyer
Lily's parents
Lopots, Mr.
Ludy
Lutz,
Christina
Lutz, Eleanor
Lutz, Harry
Lutz, Stanley
Amy and Lucien Joubert's seven-year-old son.
JR
Swiss national married to Amy Moncrieff Joubert, executive with Nobili.
JR
Character from Oscar's play.
Lily's third ambulance chasing lawyer.
Director of "The Blood in the Red White and Blue", his real name is Jonathan
Livingston, had also used the surname Siegal.
Skinny nineteen year old kid, who mugged Paul, and is killed by Paul.
Character in McCandless’ novel, based on McCandless himself.
F
F
F
Shuttle surgeon.
Former superior of McCandless, who has been killed.
Does research for a book on the Holmes Court.
Wyatt‘s art teacher in Munich.
Paul’s fellow soldier in Vietnam.
CG, F
CG
F
R
CG
Involved in trust of Vorakers.
Old acquaintance of Oscar's father.
Edie's aunt, dies at age ninety-six.
At Esther’s party, has published a book .
Bast family attorney in Indiana.
Foreman at General Roll Company.
Lawyer Harry knows from law school, works for Lepidus, Holtz, Blomefeld, Macy &
Shea.
Custodian at J R's school.
A former colleague of McCandless.
Moviemaker from Erebus Productions.
Mr. Voraker's secretary and mistress for twenty years, who inherits a house.
Oscar's girl friend, getting a divorce.
Red-haired girlfriend from the phone company they worked with.
CG
F
CG
R
JR
JR
F
Oscar paid her off.
F
Half Oscar's age, she withdraws from Lily's divorce case.
F
Joined the church of Rev. Ude.
Doctor Gustav Schak’s attorney, F X Lopots Attorney.
F
CG
Distinguished novelist, staying at the Real Monasterio de Nuestra Senora de la Otra
Vez.
Oscar's step sister, Harry's wife, daughter of Judge Thomas Crease and Mrs. Mable, his
second wife.
One of Harry's sisters of New Rochelle called Norrie.
Christina's husband, lawyer at the law firm Swyn &Dour, specialized in corporate law,
dies in car accident.
Harry's father, an early innovator in the textile industry cutthroat operator, estranged
from his son for years.
R
9
CG
CG
JR
CG
JR
CG
F
F
F
F
F
F
M
Mabel, Mrs
Madhar Pai,
Jawaharal,
"Jerry"
Major
Malinovsky,
Mr.
Man, with
baby
Burly man
Man, in bed
Man, in black
suit
Man, on bus
Man, checked
suit
Man, fat
Man, green
silk necktie
Man, grey
flannel suit
Man, kewpie
doll tattoo on
forearm
Man, on the
ledge
Man, old 1
Man, old 2
Man, in the
street
Man, tan suit
Man, woman
tattoo
Man, young
McCandless,
Jack
Mr.
McCandless
McCandless,
Mrs
McCandless,
Senior
McFardle,
Jim
Manomuerto,
Fr.
Mother of Christina Lutz, Judge Crease's second wife.
Attorney for defendant Kiester
F
F
Character in Oscar's play, father of Guilielma.
Head of the crew hired by Zona Selk to remove Schepperman's painting from Typhon's
corporate lobby.
Tight-rope walker and husband of the girl with bandaged wrists at Esther’s party.
F
JR
Man in the Depot Tavern, commander of the local American Legion post.
Man in bed beside Oscar.
Makes money by organizing the delivery of messages to deceased people, has visited
Oscar in hospital to ask his cooperation.
Man talking to Mr Pivner on the bus.
Man -- the pusher -- waiting for Frank Sinisterra to get money.
R
F
F
Husband of woman with ring, in yellow and brown necktie, at the zoo, later at the
monastery in Saint Zwingli.
Publicity man, offering Esme a role for the lead in a film on B.V.M.
R
Man at the hotel bar, where Otto wants to meet his father, later in bed with Jean.
R
Man Otto knows in Central America and talks to in the communal lavatory.
R
a man Mr Pivner sees on his way home.
R
Old man paddling by Christina on her way to Oscar in the hospital, colliding with
radiator.
Neighbor of the Booths, always with a broom and flattened dustpan.
Man stepping in front of Harry's car.
F
Author of “The Trees of Home” at Esther’s party.
“Strangler” in the Depot Tavern.
R
R
Lantern-jawed movie-star at Brown’s party.
McCandless’s son, attended school with Billy.
R
CG
Landlord of the house the Booths rented, geologist, writer.
CG
Ex-wife of McCandless.
CG
Father of Mr. McCandless, like his son suffering from arthritis at an early age.
CG
Someone Paul knows.
CG
Organist at Real Monasterio de Nuestra Senora.
R
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R
R
R
CG
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Marga
Guest in the hotel Frank Sinisterra stays at in Madrid, Wyatt’s lover for a few nights.
R
Martin,
Father
Mary 1
Mary 2
Maurice
Max
Meow,
Chairman
Mess boy
Mexican
Milliken,
Senator
Mims, Miss
Mohlenhoff,
Shriek
Mollenhoff,
Herbert
Moncrieff,
Freddie
Moncrieff,
Monty
Mooneyham,
Mr.
mortician
Moyst,
Colonel
Mullins,
Kenny
Mullins, Mr.
Mullins,
Sheila
Munk, Arny
Munk, Maude
Priest Valentine went to school with, killed by Mr. Inononu.
R
Silent cousin of Town Carpenter, his dead wife‘s sister.
Old housekeeper companion in the Hemsley house.
A policeman, trying to carry Santa Claus.
Village painter and poet, wearing his coat too long and his trousers too short.
Rhoda's cat, drowns in bathtub.
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F
R
R
JR
Honduran mess boy on the ship Island Trader.
Sitting at a table with Hannah in Paris.
U.S. Senator from an unnamed Western state with whom J R Family of Companies tries
to curry a favor.
Recktall Brown's secretary.
Lawyer Oscar gets from matchbook cover, of Shriek Mohlenhoff & Shransky.
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R
JR
Major Hyde's boss at Endo Appliance.
JR
Amy Joubert's retarded brother, son of Monty Moncrieff, Gibbs' schoolmate.
JR
Amy Joubert's father, head of Typhon International until he leaves to accept a Cabinet
Undersecretary position in Washington.
Alcoholic President of X-L Lithography.
JR
Friend of Fuller, living six blocks off Central park.
Army officer involved in Typhon's machinations
R
JR
Salesman with General Roll in Dayton, Ohio.
JR
Sheila's father, Owner of a dry-cleaner on the east side.
Girl-friend of Billy, Buddhist.
CG
CG
Husband of Maude, gay, dies in hotel in Paris.
Wife of Arny, childless due to an accident, wants to adopt a child and steals baby at
Esther's party.
Secretary at General Roll Company.
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R
Writer of short story, hands manila envelope to Otto.
Positive negativist at Viareggio’s and other places.
R
R
Seen by Bertha Hebble at the zoo, freeing the birds.
On the ship to Spain, talking to newspaper editor.
Sued by senor Hermoso.
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R
R
Man from the newspaper, looking around the house after Elisabeth Booth’s death.
CG
Zona Selk's chauffeur.
Young Nigerian, studying medicine in the US, selling zebra hides to pay medical
school.
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JR
CG
Myrna
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Navy veteran
Negative
positivist
Negro, tall
newsman
Newspaper
editor
Newspaper
man
Nick
Nigerian
R
F
JR
JR
Nipples, Sir
John
Nowunda
President
Nurse 1
Nurse on ship
Nurse2
Nurse 3
O
officer
Orlando
Orsini, Jack
P
Parentucelli
Pastora
Pecci,
Congressman
Pecci, Janice
Peretti
Peyton, Bill
Piscator,
Arnold
"Nonny"
Pivner, Mr
Pivner, Otto
Poet, stubby
Policemen
Polly
Pomerance,
Mr.
Poodle
Pookie
Popeye
porter
Pott, Mr.
Preswig, Jack
Priscilla
Prislikhoviscel
Mr.
Process server
proprietor of
hotel
prostitute
R
Ragow, Leo
Ragow,
Marian
British theatre director famous for his Elisabethan productions.
F
Marxist-leaning President of Gandia.
JR
In Bellevue hospital.
Blonde treating Stanley.
Bitchy nurse working for Dr. Kissinger.
Nurse in hospital where Oscar lies, spills blood on Trish, who bumps into her.
R
R
CG
F
Army PR man at Esther’s party.
Mrs. Deigh’s mute chauffeur.
Doctor, for whom Vorakers had set up an 8 million dollar foundation.
R
R
CG
Owner of Catania Paving.
Girl Wyatt meets in Madrid, they have a daughter.
State legislator, member of the state banking committee, partner in the law firm of
Ganganelli, Pecci, and Peretti.
Wife of Congressman Pecci.
Partner in the law firm of Ganganelli, Pecci, and Peretti.
Lawyer Trish Hemsley consults, Harry Lutz's colleague.
General counsel for the J R Family of Companies.
JR
R
JR
Otto‘s father, ‚Dad‘, never meets his son, suffers from diabetes.
Writer in the Village, in Central America.
The companion of critic in the green wool shirt.
At Max’s party.
A doll Rev. Gwyon had owned when he was four years old.
Piscator's brother, who changed his name, head of public relations firm Pomerance
Associates.
Recktall Brown‘s female dog, killed by Fuller after Brown’s death.
Dog (Lhasa apso) of Trish Hemsley.
Woman at costume party who hasn‘t spoken to a man in 16 years.
Old janitor at the Real Monasterio, rapist of the little girl in long white stockings.
R
R
Man at Esther’s party.
Lawyer in Oscar's accident case.
Character from Otto‘s play.
Employeé from Ace Fidelity, investigating Oscar's case.
R
F
R
F
Delivering a subpoena to Oscar.
Proprietor of hotel Bella Vista in Guatemala
F
R
Woman who worked the New Stanley and disappeared after alleged murder of Klinger.
CG
Masha's husband, a slumlord in Cleveland.
One of Harry's sisters from Cleveland, Ohio called Masha.
F
F
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JR
JR
F
JR
R
JR
R
F
R
R
Randal
Real estate
woman
Rhoda
Riddle
Riding,
Winifred
Rose
Rudy
Ruth, J.
Harret
S
sacristán
Male leading role in Kiester's film.
In charge of selling the Crease house.
F
F
Schramm's young lover, pushed out the window by Pecci during a publicity stunt.
Character in McCandless novel based on Cruikshank.
Oscar's mother, his father's first wife, daughter of a wealthy Long Island architect and
landowner.
Esther‘s retarded sister.
Designer (e.g. sports clothes for nuns), marries Frank in Paris.
Former Village official, presiding Village Board member at the time of the erection of
Cyclone Seven.
JR
CG
F
At the graveyard in San Zwingli talking to Wyatt.
R
Sailor from the Purdue Victory hauled out of the ocean, whom Esme mistakes for
Wyatt.
Found by children at the zoo lying on the pavement.
Santa Claus
Schak, Gustav Doctor, who has done spirometry on Elisabeth Booth.
Schepperman Painter, fired as art teacher at J R's school.
Schmuck, Mr. Businessman, of Twentieth Century-Schmuck at Brown’s party.
At Brown’s party.
Schmuck’s
assistant
At a bar with other movie people.
Schmuck’s
musical
director
Writer who lives down the hall from Eigen and Gibbs in the Ninety-Sixth Street
Schramm
apartment building.
Schramm's stepmother, younger than Schramm.
Schramm,
Mrs.
Colleague of McCandless and Lester.
Seiko
Teenage daughter of Zona Selk.
Selk, Boody
Controls 200,000 shares of Diamond Cable common stock on behalf of her daughter
Selk, Zona
Boody.
Character in Oscar's play, acquaintance of Bagby.
Senator
Name Harry Deigh uses for his wife in his book.
Seraphina
New sexton after town carpenter’s death, former station master.
sexton
Sheets, Major Army procurement officer who buys wooden picnic forks from J R
Shorter, Billy Union leader at Eagle Mills.
Wife of Frank Sinisterra, presumably suffering from cancer though Frank believes it’s
Sinisterra,
indigestion.
Mrs.
Son of Frank Sinisterra, Esme‘s lover, a junk-peddler, addict.
Sinisterra,
Chaby
Counterfeiter, takes on identity of Mr. Yàk, is killed by Mr. Inononu.
Sinisterra,
Frank
Head of sales for Duncan and Company.
Skinner
Washington lawyer, with “top contacts inside the Administration,” whom Paul gets to
Slotko
work on VCR's stock options.
Bookie who operates out of the cafeteria managed by Urquhart.
Slomin
Character in McCandless novel based on Lester.
Slyke
sailor
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R
F
R
R
CG
JR
R
R
R
JR
JR
CG
JR
JR
F
R
R
JR
JR
R
R
R
JR
CG
JR
CG
Sneddiger
Madame
Socrate
Solant
Doing business with Adolph, offering Paul legal counsel.
Cleaning woman from Haiti at McCandless' house.
CG
CG
Former colleague of McCandless, forger.
CG
Soldier
Somali
Sonnenschein,
Mr.
Spermelli,
Cardinal
Spot
Stamper
Stanley
Stanley‘s
mother
Stein, Miss
Stepan, father
Character from Oscar's play.
Working with Lester at some time in the past.
Businessman at Brown’s party.
F
CG
R
Mrs. Deigh wants to consult him on behalf of Stanley’s wish to play his composition at
Fenestrula, probably exists in her mind only.
James B.'s dog trapped in sculpture Cyclone Seven.
Business and big-game hunting associate of Crawley's
Catholic Composer.
At the hospital, commits suicide.
R
A young woman, with Mr. Sonnenschein at Brown’s party.
Priest who is a witness in court over one of Trish's law suit, appearing as Mrs Hemsley's
confessor.
Childhood friend of Elisabeth Booth.
R
F
Oscar's students reading his play, Frank, Jed.
Connected to Doctor Schak.
African-American insurance agent.
Dominican Mrs. Deigh knows.
An adjacent resident of the plaza dominated by Cyclone Seven.
F
CG
JR
R
F
Cab driver, Gibbs claims he stole his right shoe.
Priest whose meetings Fuller attends occasionally, Wyatt is mistaken for him.
JR
R
African American senatorial candidate.
Sculptor, a dog is trapped in his sculpture Cyclone Seven.
CG
J R, F
Character from Oscar's play, "a lady friend" of Bagby.
Senator in Washington, Teakell family seed company got the patent on hybrid corn
strains.
F
CG
District superintendant of schools, killed in car wreck.
JR
Steyner,
Bobbie
students
Stumpp, Mr.
Stye, Mr.
Sucio, Don
Suggs Jr.,
H.R.
Suggs, Hardy
Sullivan,
Gilbert
Sweet, Victor
Szyrk, R.
T
Tart
Teakell
Teakell, Vern
Teakell, Cettie Girl from Saint Tim's, whom Elisabeth and Edie used to know, daughter of senator
Teakell, involved in car accident.
The airline insurance company's doctor.
Terranova,
Dr.
Agent at Massapequa train station.
Teets, J.
Secretary at General Roll.
Terry
Physiotherapist treating Oscar after his accident, Ilse will take over his role.
Therapist
Thing,
Adeline
A blond girl, marries Herschel.
F
JR
R
R
CG
C
CG
JR
JR
F
R
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Character from Oscar's play, named after Oscar's grandfather "a hero home from the
war."
Character from Oscar's play, worked at the embassy in France, died in 1854.
F
Character from Oscar's play, a devout Christian woman.
F
Character in Oscar's play, died intestate.
F
Camilla‘s father, sexton at the church.
R
Has had a habit of squating at the foot of the granite Civil War monument in the center
of town in any weather under a blanket when the house oppressed her.
R
Arresting Mr. Pivner for counterfeiting
.
She is fifteen years old, her father a basketball coach.
Owned half the timber in Maine.
R
Ude's older daughter.
Ude's son.
CG
CG, F
Ude's younger daughter, still wetting her pants.
Evangelical preacher from the rural South.
Judge in Surrogate Court.
Ude's wife, ran off with a salesman.
Elton Ude's mother, got married at age of fourteen.
Sergeant Urich, Paul knows him.
Cafeteria manager.
CG
CG, F
JR
CG
CG
CG
JR
Use-Me
Ladies
V
In the church of Rev. Gwyon.
R
Valentine,
Basil
Vansant, J R
Vesendorf,
Minna
Victor
Virginia
Vogel, Coach
Art critic of Hungarian descent, author of book about art, Jesuit background.
R
Eleven-year-old boy who becomes head of the J R Family of Companies.
At Esther’s party, calls herself Izarra.
JR
R
Bunker's excellent cook.
Secretary of J R Family of Companies.
Teaches driver education at J R's school, director of research and development at RayX.
Elisabeth's and Billy's father, head of Vorakers Consolidated Reserve (VCR).
F
Elisabeth's and Billy's mother, in a nursing home in New Jersey called Hopewell.
CG
Elisabeth's twenty-four-year-old brother, dies when plane is shot down before the coast
of Africa.
CG, F
Thomas
Thomas'
father
Thomas'
mother
Thomas'
uncle
Town
Carpenter
Town
Carpenter’s
mother
Treasury
agent
Trish's cousin
Trish's third
husband
U
Ude, Betty Joe
Ude, Bobbie
Joe
Ude, daughter
Ude, Elton
Ude, Judge
Ude, Mrs.
Ude, Sally Joe
Urich
Urquhart
Vorakers,
F.R.
Vorakers,
Mrs.
Vorakers,
Billy
W
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F
F
F
JR
CG, F
Waddams,
Nurse
waiter
Wall, Mr.
Walldecker,
Mr.
Weisgall, Dr.
Westwood,
Clint
Whiteback,
Principal
Wiles, Frank
William 1
William 1
Willie
Mr. Wipe
Wipe's
secretary
Woman, from
bank
Woman, fat
Woman,
maternity
dress
Woman,
orchid
Woman, with
ring
Woman, on
the subway
Woman, tall
Woman, at
zoo
Wonder,
George
Wu, Lenny
Y
Yák
Yellow Brook,
Charlie
Yount, Dr.
Youth,
bearded
Z
Zefnic, Eddie
Works first at J R's junior high school, then at the hospital, where Angel, Bast, Cates
and Duncan are being treated.
Waiter on ship to Spain, saves Stanley from jumping overboard.
California stockbroker used by J R.
Runs Angels East and Angels West.
JR
Dentist opposite Agnes Deigh‘s office.
Playing the Major in Kiester's film.
R
F
Principal of J R's school and president of local bank.
JR
Stockbroker.
Uncle of Liz and Billy, staying in Payne Whitney.
Character from Oscar's play, the Major's son.
William Gaddis, who makes a few cameo appearances
At Esther’s party
Mr. Wipe’s personal secretary.
JR
CG
F
R
R
R
Woman from Pee Dee Citizen bank at Wayne Fickert's funeral, eating Cheez Doodles.
CG
Learning Italian, on the ship to Europe.
At Esther’s party, in a collapsed maternity dress.
R
R
At Esther’s party, with orchid upside-down.
R
R
JR
JR
At the real Monasterio, earlier at the zoo, wife of fat man, called Mamie by her husband. R
Screaming, horrifying Stanley.
R
Wife of editor of Esther’s book, can’t bear children, but might be pregnant.
Dark blond woman, at the zoo with her child.
R
R
Head of Wonder Brewery.
JR
New associate at Swyne & Dour.
F
Rumanian, looked for by Mr. Inononu, scholar specialized in ancient Egypt.
Representative of a Native American tribe from whom J R agrees to lease gas and
mineral exploration rights for twenty years.
Another doctor whom Elisabeth Booth consulted.
At Brown’s party, young art critic, speaking a French no one understands.
R
JR
Office boy at Mr. Pivner‘s office, who Mr. Pivner befriends.
R
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CG
R