WILLIAM GADDIS – DRAMATIS PERSONAE



WILLIAM GADDIS – DRAMATIS PERSONAE

(all the characters in all the novels)

compiled by Anja Zeidler

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|CHARACTER |DESCRIPTION and APPEARANCE |NOVEL | |

|A | | | |

|Adolph |The executor of Voraker's estate. |CG | |

|Adeline |A nurse Herschel knew and bit. |R | |

|Adeline |An acquaintance of Fuller, who has a daughter named Elsie. |R | |

|Afrikaner |A man who is thought to have shot Klinger. |CG | |

|"agent" |Real estate agent, through whom the Booths got McCandless’ house. |CG | |

|Al 1 |Guitar-plunking friend of Rhoda. |J R | |

|Al 2 |Lily's Jewish husband. |F | |

|Alabama man |"Alabama Rammer-Jammer man," the third man in advertisement with Ellery and Morgie. |R | |

|Ambers |Black servant from Oscar's play. |F | |

|Anatole |Bartender at the hotel, where Otto doesn’t meet his father. |R | |

|Angel, Norman |Manager of the Bast family's General Roll plant in Astoria and husband of Stella Angel. |J R | |

|Angel, Stella |Daughter of Thomas Bast, wife of Norman Angel. |J R | |

|Anselm |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 |R | |

| |of Canterbury. | | |

|Anselm’s mother |A “sweet little Boston woman" interested in dogs. |R | |

|archeologist |A friend of Rev. Gwyon, who had once given a pair of ear-rings to Camilla. |R | |

|Ardythe, Miss |The organist who “dropped stone dead at the keyboard with her sharp chin on a high D” during Gwyon and Camilla’s wedding. |R | |

|Argentinean |Argentine trade commissioner at the wrong party (Esther’s party). |R | |

|Arnold |A friend of Elisabeth. |CG | |

|Aunt May |Sister of the older Rev. Gwyon (Rev. Gwyon’s nameless father), a steadfast Calvinist and Wyatt’s Christian mentor. |R | |

|B | | | |

|Baby |One-year-old child of the woman with bandaged wrists at Esther’s party, who is stolen by Maude. |R | |

|Bagby |General Manager of Thomas' uncle in Oscar's play. |F | |

|Bag lady |Sister of the homeless, who is drowned by fault of Rev. Ude. |CG | |

|Bailey, Bill |Process server. |J R | |

|Barney |Barkeeper in a Lexington Avenue bar. |R | |

|Basie, Harold |African-American con lawyer, who takes on Oscar's case |F | |

|Bast, Anne |Unmarried aunt of Edward Bast and Stella Angel, sister of Julia, James and Thomas Bast. |J R | |

|Bast, Charlotte |Deceased sister of Anne, Julia, James and Thomas Bast. |J R | |

|Bast, Dick |Deceased brother of "Father". |J R | |

|Bast, Edward |Composer and son of James Bast and Nellie; nephew of Anne and Julia Bast. |J R | |

|Bast, "Father" |Deceased younger brother of Dick Bast, father of Anne, Julia, Charlotte, James and Thomas Bast. |J R | |

|Bast, James |Composer and father of Edward Bast, who is abroad for the duration of the novel. |J R | |

|Bast, Julia |Unmarried aunt of Edward Bast and Stella Angel, sister of Anne, James and Thomas Bast. |J R | |

|Bast, Nellie |Married Thomas after his first wife's death, cohabited with James Bast, mother of Edward, commits suicide. |J R | |

|Bast, Reuben |Orphan, musical prodigy of James Bast. |J R | |

|Bast, Thomas |Father of Stella Angel and president of General Roll Co. |J R | |

|Beamish |Lawyer for Triangle Paper Products and the Schramm family. |J R | |

|Beard, the |A friend of Esme with a black beard. |R | |

|Beaton |Typhon's corporate secretary and general counsel. |J R | |

|Begg, Edgar |Park Commissioner in Union Falls. |J R | |

|Begg, Eunice |Eagle Mills stockholder who sues J R after his takeover of the company. |J R | |

|Begg, Judge R.V. |Judge in Union Falls, presiding over the action which dissolves the outstanding stock of Eagle Mills. |J R | |

|Ben |Lawyer for Jack Gibbs. |J R | |

|Benny |Employee in architectural office with Wyatt, later in advertising with Ellery, commits suicide. |R | |

|Bernie |Fat husband of woman with ring, in yellow and brown necktie at the zoo, reappearing in Spain. |R | |

|B.F. |Ellery's colleague in advertising. |R | |

|Biff |“This old locker room guy” from Billy Voraker's school days. |CG | |

|Big Anna |Swede at Esther's party. |R | |

|Bildow, Don |The editor of a little magazine (The Magazine). |R | |

|Bildow, Mrs |Don Bildow‘s wife. |R | |

|Bildow, Miss |The six-year-old daughter of the Bildows, left by her baby sitter Anselm at some show. | | |

|Bilk, Senator Orney |A "Neanderthal senator" from Stinking Creek. |F | |

|Black, Frank |Washington lawyer who functions as an unregistered lobbyist for Typhon. |J R | |

|Blaufinger, General |Led the German troops against the Allies at St. Fiacre in the Ardennes. |J R | |

|Blanfors, Lettie |Acquaintance of Trish Hemsley and customer of beauty doctor Kissinger. |F |

|Boatwright, Mr. |The Crease family's old plumber, invented by Oscar. |F | |

|Bobbie |Lily's brother, who is killed in a car accident driving his Porsche. |F | |

|Bone, Judge |Judge on the Second Circuit bench. |F |

|C J | | |

|Booth, Elisabeth |The asthmatic thirty-three-year old daughter of mineral tycoon F R Vorakers, Paul Booth's wife. |CG, F | |

|Booth, Paul |Elisabeth Booth's husband, Vietnam veteran, now working as media consultant. |CG, F | |

|Booth, Mr. |Paul Booth's father, who thinks little of his own son. |CG | |

|Boston girl |Tall light-haired girl with Boston accent at Esther’s party. |R | |

|Box, General |Led Allied troops against Blaufinger at St. Fiacre, director of Typhon International. |J R | |

|Boy, blond |At Viareggio’s. |R | |

|Boy, haggard |At Viareggio‘s with a “haggard face.” |R | |

|Boy, Italian |A chinless boy from Sicily at Max‘s party, cousin of dark tall girl at Viareggio‘s. |R | |

|Boy, little |At the zoo, in front of the polar bear cage. |R | |

|Boy, red cap |At Viareggio‘s. |R | |

|Boy, at the zoo |Boy in a boy scout uniform in the lion house at the zoo. |R | |

|"Boy" |Paul Booth’s son of a Vietnamese woman. |CG | |

|"boy" |A lover of Trish, half her age, trying to be a writer. |F | |

|boys |Playing with a dead pigeon at the beginning of the novel. |CG | |

|Bredford, Robert |Actor, playing the role of Randal in Kiester's film. |F |

|Bunker |Trish's lawyer, whom she wants to marry, twice her age. |F | |

|Button |An "old buddy" from Basie's days at the Federal prison, who learnt acting there. |F | |

|di Brescia, Conte |An Italian collector, who sold Bosch’s Seven Sins painting to Reverend Gwyon. |R | |

|di Brescia, Seraphina |Tall dark woman Big Anna looks for at costume party, the timid Italian boy is her cousin. |R | |

|Brian |A friend of Irene McCandless, who triggered McCandless’ jealousy, wants to go to Yucatán to live with the Indians. |CG | |

|Brisboy |Spokesman for Wagner Funeral Homes. |J R | |

|Brisboy, Mrs. |Brisboy's mother, compared to Cosima Wagner. |J R | |

|British, R.A. |Tall white-haired man in gray on Brown’s party, a member of the Royal Academy. |R | |

|Bronzino |Man at the costume party. |R | |

|Broos, Senator |Member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, involved in Typhon's machination in Gandia. |J R | |

|Brown, Buster |A twenty-three or twenty-eight-year-old writer. |R | |

|Brown, Recktall |A businessman, publisher, collector, dealer, engaging Wyatt as forger of old paintings. |R | |

|Bulcke, Miss |Secretary at Typhon International. |J R | |

|Burmese |One of Edie's lovers, who went off with all her traveler checks. |CG | |

|Buzzie |Student at J R's Junior High School, killed in Hyde's car crashing into diCephalis. |J R | |

|Byron, Sonny |Young black man at Max‘s party, accompanied Buster Brown. |R | |

|C | | | |

|Cab driver |Driving Valentine and Wyatt. |R | |

|Captain |The captain of the Purdue Victory. |R | |

|Carlucci |Character in the Kiester film, the mines manager. |F |

|Carol |Secretary at Typhon International. |J R | |

|Cates, Gov. John |Amy Joubert's eighty-year-old great uncle, director of Typhon International. |J R | |

|Chick |Paul's RTO (radiotelephone operator) in Vietnam. |CG | |

|Chevitz |Settling a suit against Kiester. |F | |

|Chichester, Dr. |Harry's dentist. |F |

|Chigger |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 |Eighteen-month-year-old wet-nosed child seen by Wyatt and Valentine at the zoo in front of the seal pool. |R | |

|Chin, Doris |Feature writer. |CG | |

|Christiane |Blond model sitting for Wyatt in Paris. |R | |

|Cibo |Businessman, becomes President of Catania Paving. |J R | |

|Cleaning women |Cleaning woman at Otto's place in Central America. |R | |

|Cobb, Ira |Neighbor of the Bast family in Indiana. |J R | |

|Coen |Lawyer for Norman Angel and General Roll Company. |J R | |

|Coops, Hoddy |Billey Fickert's husband after Earl left for Mississippi. |F |

|Cowpie |Buddhist friend of Billy from Akron. |CG | |

|Crawley |Stockbroker, of Crawley & Bro. |J R | |

|Crease, Justice |Oscar's and Christina's father and a heavy smoker. |F | |

|Crease, Captain (later |Oscar's grandfather, who fought in the Civil War (Seventeenth Regiment Army of Northern Virginia), was wounded at Ball's Bluff |F | |

|Justice) Thomas |and Antietam, later became a member of the Holmes Court and died at age 96. | | |

|Crease, Oscar L. |Christina's step brother, son of Judge Thomas Crease and Winifred Riding, his first wife, lecturer in American history at the |F | |

| |community college at Lotusville and writer of an unsuccessful play. | | |

|Crémer |Art critic, who writes for La Macule and knows Recktall Brown from the army. |R | |

|Critic |Tall man in green wool shirt, who looks like "a rather unfortunate print of Mozart." |R | |

|Cross-eyed girl |Little cross-eyed girl in long white stockings, raped and killed when eleven years old, lying next to Camilla on the church yard |R | |

| |of San Zwingli. | | |

|Crotcher, Mr. |A writer, who has translated his book on ant life into nineteen languages. |R | |

|Cruikshank |Lester’s Chief of Station (COS) in Matidi. |CG | |

|Cutler, Richard |Typhon employee, who eventually marries Amy Joubert. |J R | |

|D | | | |

|"Dad" |A transient living with Dan and Ann diCephalis, each of whom believes him to be the other's father. |J R | |

|Dalner |Owner of Dalner Gallery. |R | |

|Darling, Morgie |Advertisement man, from Yale. |R | |

|daughter |Daughter of Pastora and Wyatt. |R | |

|Davidoff, David |Director of public relations for Typhon, then for J R Family of Companies. |J R | |

|Davis, Ziff |Actor in Kiester's Civil War film. |F | |

|Dé, Doctor |Defense Minister of Gandia, member of Idi tribe from Uaso province. |J R | |

|Decker, W. |Scam artist posing as an underwriter. |J R | |

|Deleserea |African-American domestic employed by Zona Selk. |J R | |

|Deigh, Agnes |Literary agent, mother to every fairy in the city, attempts suicide. |R | |

|Deigh, Harry |Agnes Deigh's husband, who dies falling off a bar stool in Hollywood. |R | |

|Deigh, Mrs. |Agnes’ mother, who lives in Rome on the via Flaminia. |R | |

|Deigh, Mr. |Agnes‘s brother, a writer, missed in WWII. |R | |

|DiCephalis, Ann |Wife of J R's school psychometrician. |J R | |

|DiCephalis, Dan |Psychometrician at J R's school, he is lost in Teletravel transmission. |J R | |

|DiCephalis, Donny |Son of Ann and Dan DiCephalis. |J R | |

|DiCephalis, Nora |Daughter of Ann and Dan DiCephalis. |J R | |

|Delivery man |Delivers Oscars wine. |F | |

|Dick |Young minister replacing Reverend Gwyon. |R | |

|Dickens, Charles |He is called Charley and has guilt feelings for dropping an atomic bomb, has a silver plate in his head. |R | |

|Mrs. Dickens |Charles’s mother, a Christian Scientist. |R | |

|Doris |Harry Lutz's secretary. |F | |

|Dorman, Mrs. |A boarding-house keeper, singing in the church of Rev. Gwyon. |R | |

|Drovie, Bill |Deputy U.S. Marshall. |J R | |

|Drucker |Paul’s fellow soldier in Vietnam with a collection of ears. |CG | |

|Drunkard |Talking to John in the bar and to Valentine at the corner of Gansevoort Street. |R | |

|Duchess of Ohio |Someone at Esther’s party. |R | |

|Duncan, Isadore |Head of wallpaper firm and Edward Bast's hospital roommate. |J R | |

|Duncan, Mister |Head of Duncan and Company book publishers. |J R | |

|Duncan, Vida |Classmate of Zona Selk, wife of book publisher Duncan. |J R | |

|E | | | |

|editor |Editor of Esther’s book, married to the tall woman. |R | |

|Edna Mims |Girl with whom Otto used to go out in College (Radcliffe), then Max‘s girl friend, working for Brown. |R | |

|Eigen, David |Four-year-old son of Thomas and Marian Eigen. |J R | |

|Eigen, Marian |Wife of Thomas Eigen. |J R | |

|Eigen, Thomas |Writer who shares the Ninety-Sixth apartment with Gibbs, working as speech writer. |J R | |

|Ellery |Advertising man, Esther‘s lover. |R | |

|Elsie |Daughter of Adeline, Fuller‘s acquaintance, died at age of three. |R | |

|Employeé at cleaners |Woman at Trish's cleaner. |F | |

|Ernie |Big unshaven man, who looks like Ernest Hemingway |R | |

|Esme |Poet and Wyatt's model, working for Brown, dies of a staphylococcic infection from kissing Saint-Peter-in-the-Boat. |R | |

|Esther |Wife of Wyatt. |R | |

|Eulalio, Fr. 1 |Monk at the Real Monasterio de Nuestra Senora de la Otra Vez in times past. |R | |

|Eulalio, Fr. 2 |Monk at the Real Monasterio de Nuestra Senora de la Otra Vez when Wyatt Gwyon stays there. |R | |

|F | | | |

|Fahrtmesser, Frau |German woman who wants her daughter to be canonized by Don Sucio. |R | |

|Mr Farisy |Patient at the asylum where Reverend Gwyon stays. |R | |

|Fé, Monseigneur |Someone Agnes knows in Rome, who has his own chapel beside the Vatican. |R | |

|Feasley, Ed |He studied with Otto at Harvard and is Max in Otto‘s play. |R | |

|Feasley, Mr. |Ed Feasley’s father, owner of battleships. |R | |

|Feasley, Mrs. |Ed Feasley’s mother. |R | |

|Fedders, Mr. |Official with the Teacher's Union. |J R | |

|Feddle |“Poet” to be published soon. |R | |

|Feddle, Mrs |Wife of Mr Feddle. |R | |

|Fell, Dr. |Doctor mistreating Wyatt, also Otto. |R | |

|Fickert, Billey |Mother of Wayne Fickert, who is going to play a role in a movie called “The Wayne Fickert Story.” |CG, F | |

|Fickert, Earl |Father of Wayne Fickert running a junkyard in Mississippi. |CG, F | |

|Fickert, Wayne |Nine year old son of Billey and Earl Fickert, who drowns during baptism by Reverend Ude in South Carolina's Pee Dee river. |CG, F | |

|Flesch, Miss |Teacher and "curriculum specialist" at J R's school, later hired by Davidoff as "project director." |J R | |

|Florence |Secretary at Typhon International. |J R | |

|Flower-Cart Man |Selling Lilies to Wyatt. |R | |

|Ford |"Program Specialist" for the Foundation. |J R | |

|Frank |Friend of Rudy. |R | |

|Franks, Jesse |Tattooed man Otto knows in Central America: |R | |

|Frenchman |Frenchman from Lyon at Brown’s party. |R | |

|Frika, Anga |Female leading role in Kiester's film. |F |

|Friend of Benny |A friend of Benny from school, who has written a history of the player piano. |R | |

|Fuller |Recktall Brown‘s servant from Barbados. |R | |

|G | | | |

|Gall |From the Foundation, working on a book about educational TV programming in schools. |J R | |

|Ganganelli |Partner in the law firm of Ganganelli, Pecci and Peretti. |J R | |

|Gates, Pearly |The baritone who accompanies Rev. Ude's sermon at the grave of Wayne Fickert. |CG | |

|Gench, Barry |Film student at UCLA, who charges Kiester on behalf of the sledgehammer scene in the film "Uruburu." |F | |

|George |Round-headed salesman acquainted with Max, reading Otto‘s play. |R | |

|Gibbs, Jack |Teaches physics at J R's school, writer. |J R | |

|Gibbs, Rose |Jack Gibb's daughter. |J R | |

|Ginny |Mollenhoff's secretary at Endo Appliance. |J R | |

|Giono |Italian boy the Swede wants to adopt. |R | |

|Giulielma |Character from Oscar's play, wife of Thomas there. |F | |

|Girl, bandaged |A Catholic at Esther's party with both wrists bandaged, her husband a writer. |R | |

|Girl, dark |Dark girl at Bella Vista hotel serving lunch to Otto. |R | |

|Girl, flat |A girl at Max's party. |R | |

|Girl, green tongue |A girl at Esther’s party. |R | |

|Girl, little colored |Man in purple dress at costume party. |R | |

|Girl, little |Seven year old girl from the apartment below Esther’s, fetching sleeping pills for her mother, who later dies. |R | |

|Little girl at the zoo |Girl in front of polar bear cage. |R | |

|Girl, pale |A girl seen by Stanley in Rome reading Forster. |R | |

|Girl, small |Smallest of three girls at the zoo, who loses her balloon. |R | |

|girl |A girl looking for her black dog. |CG | |

|Glancy |Teaches sixth grade math at J R's school. |J R | |

|Gold, Mr. |Someone pretending to work at Saks phoning to tell Elisabeth her purse had been found, presumably involved in robbery at the |CG | |

| |house. | | |

|Gordon |Character in Otto‘s novel. |R | |

|Gottlieb, Mr. |Works at a Cadillac dealership in Massapequa. |J R | |

|Gribble, Frank |Insurance man from Ace Worldwide Fidelity. |F | |

|Grimes, Cissie |Mother of Edie Grimes. |CG | |

|Grimes, Edie |Elisabeth’s childhood friend. |CG, F | |

|Grimes, Mr. |Father of Edie Grimes, successor of VCR, on the board of the airline and airline's insurance company, whose plane crashes with |CG | |

| |Elisabeth Booth injured. | | |

|Grimes, Squeekie |Edie's sister. |CG | |

|Grissom |Lawyer. |CG | |

|Grocery man |Delivering Elisabeth's order for dinner with McCandless. |CG | |

|Grynszpan, Hyman |Pseudonym concocted by Gibbs for purposes of financial evasion. |J R | |

|Guest of honor |Writer at Esther’s party. |R | |

|Guy from Florida |A friend of Elisabeth, who wanted to become a great actor. |CG | |

|Gwen |Character in McCandless’ novel based on Irene. |CG | |

|Gwyon boy |Had taken his life by drowning when nine years old. |R | |

|Gwyon, Camilla |Rev. Gwyon‘s wife, dying of appendicitis on voyage to Spain. |R | |

|Gwyon, John H. |18th century ancestor of the Gwyon family, killed by "disaffectionate Indians.” |R | |

|Gwyon, Rev. |Father of Rev. Gwyon and brother of Aunt May. |R | |

|Gwyon, Reverend |Camilla‘s husband, Wyatt‘s father, minister at the First Congregational Church, dies in an asylum. |R | |

|Gwyon, Wyatt |Son of Camilla and Rev. Gwyon, painter. |R | |

|H | | | |

|Hadrian |Mrs. Deigh’s aging bull terrier. |R | |

|Haight, Father |Works at parochial school in Massapequa. |J R | |

|Haight, General |Two-star Army general, brother of Father Haight. |J R | |

|Hall, Albert |Husband of Victoria Hall at Esther's party. |R | |

|Hall, Victoria |Wife of Albert Hall at Esther's party. |R | |

|Han |Boy Wyatt knew from Munich, whom he later kills in self defense in Africa. |R | |

|Handler, Doctor |Cate's doctor and former classmate. |J R | |

|Hannah |Plainly unattractive Village artist and amateur psychologist. |R | |

|"Harry's father" |Harry's image of a father made up for Oscar. |F |

|Heavy-necked person |Someone from the movies having lunch with Esme. |R | |

|Hebble, Bertha |Cleaning woman at the zoo. |R | |

|Hemsely, Miss |Trish's daughter, called Deedee, has a breakdown, cuts her wrists. |F | |

|Hemsley, Mrs |Mother of Trish, who had been converted by Bishop Sheed. |F | |

|Hemsley, Trish |Christina's rich friend from school. |F | |

|Hemsley, T J |Trish's son of about ten. |F | |

|Hermoso, senor |Language teacher in Spain, who also runs a drugstore in San Zwingli. |R | |

|Heracles |Tailless barbary ape from Gibraltar, later killed by Gwyon. |R | |

|Herschel |A good looking man from Ohio, becomes movie star and marries Adeline Thing. |R | |

|Holmes, Justice Oliver |Friend of Thomas Crease during the days of the Civil War, later associate on the Holmes Court. |F | |

|Wendell | | | |

|Hopper, Bunky |Son of Fred Hopper. |J R | |

|Hopper, Fred |President of bank that takes over the receivership of Eagle Mills. |J R | |

|Housekeeper |One of the housekeepers Christina got for Oscar. |F | |

|Huki-Lau |Hawaiian poodle dog wearing a chastity belt against the naughty Spanish doggies. |R | |

|Hyde boy |J R's closest friend, son of Major Hyde. |J R | |

|Hyde, Major |Employee at Typhon subsidiary Endo Appliance, member of school board. |J R | |

|I | | | |

|Ilse |Housekeeper with white columnar thighs, employed after Oscar's return from hospital. |F | |

|Ilse's sister |From the Bronx, briefly moving in with Ilse. |F | |

|Inch, Miss |Nurse at asylum where Revernd Gwyon stays. |R | |

|Mister Inononu |Hungarian secret agent, later appearing under the name of Dr. Kuvetli. |R | |

|Irene |McCandless’s second wife, who left him two years before the novel’s opening. |CG | |

|Israel, John |Character from Oscar's play, "our 'noble savage'" who runs away and returns at the end of the play. |F | |

|J | | | |

|Jake |The major's son in Kiester's film. |F |

|James B. |Seven-year-old African-American boy, owner of the dog Spot. |F | |

|James B.'s father |James' guardian ad litem, owner of a junk yard. |F | |

|Janet |A servant in Rev. Gwyon's household, who was born a few minutes after her mother‘s death. |R | |

|Jacqueson, Deedee |Wife of the critic in the green wool shirt. |R | |

|Jean |Blonde at the hotel bar where Otto wants to meet his father. |R | |

|Jeannie |Woman from Du Point Circle McCandless knew. |CG | |

|Jenner, Mr. |Patient in Bellevue hospital, where Agnes Deigh is staying. |R | |

|Jerry |News-vendor near Mr. Pivner‘s apartment. |R | |

|Jheejheeboy |Indian ex-husband of Edie. |CG, F | |

|Jim |Employee at the hospital, where Oscar Crease stays. |F | |

|John |Priest,who studied with Wyatt. |R | |

|Jones, R.L. |Man from Sun Style Films. |R | |

|Joubert, Emily |Teaches social studies at J R's school, married to, but separated from Lucien Joubert, daughter of Monty Moncrieff. |J R | |

|Joubert, Francis |Amy and Lucien Joubert's seven-year-old son. |J R | |

|Joubert, Lucien |Swiss national married to Amy Moncrieff Joubert, executive with Nobili. |J R | |

|K | | | |

|Kane |Character from Oscar's play. |F | |

|Kevin |Lily's third ambulance chasing lawyer. |F | |

|Kiester, Constantine |Director of "The Blood in the Red White and Blue", his real name is Jonathan Livingston, had also used the surname Siegal. |F | |

|kid |Skinny nineteen year old kid, who mugged Paul, and is killed by Paul. |CG | |

|Kinkead, Frank |Character in McCandless’ novel, based on McCandless himself. |CG | |

|Kissinger, Dr. |Shuttle surgeon. |CG, F | |

|Klinger |Former superior of McCandless, who has been killed. |CG | |

|Knize, John |Does research for a book on the Holmes Court. |F | |

|Koppel, Herr |Wyatt‘s art teacher in Munich. |R | |

|Kowalski |Paul’s fellow soldier in Vietnam. |CG | |

|L | | | |

|Landsteiner |Involved in trust of Vorakers. |CG | |

|Law clerk |Old acquaintance of Oscar's father. |F | |

|Lea |Edie's aunt, dies at age ninety-six. |CG | |

|Leak, James |At Esther’s party, has published a book . |R | |

|Lemp, Mr. |Bast family attorney in Indiana. |J R | |

|Leo |Foreman at General Roll Company. |J R | |

|Lepidus, Sam |Lawyer Harry knows from law school, works for Lepidus, Holtz, Blomefeld, Macy & Shea. |F | |

|Leroy |Custodian at J R's school. |J R | |

|Lester |A former colleague of McCandless. |CG | |

|Leva, Ben F. |Moviemaker from Erebus Productions. |J R | |

|Lily |Mr. Voraker's secretary and mistress for twenty years, who inherits a house. |CG | |

|Lily |Oscar's girl friend, getting a divorce. |F | |

|Lily's girlfriend |Red-haired girlfriend from the phone company they worked with. |F | |

|Lily's first lawyer |Oscar paid her off. |F | |

|Lily's second lawyer |Half Oscar's age, she withdraws from Lily's divorce case. |F | |

|Lily's parents |Joined the church of Rev. Ude. |F | |

|Lopots, Mr. |Doctor Gustav Schak’s attorney, F X Lopots Attorney. |CG | |

|Ludy |Distinguished novelist, staying at the Real Monasterio de Nuestra Senora de la Otra Vez. |R | |

|Lutz, Christina |Oscar's step sister, Harry's wife, daughter of Judge Thomas Crease and Mrs. Mable, his second wife. |F | |

|Lutz, Eleanor |One of Harry's sisters of New Rochelle called Norrie. |F |

|Lutz, Harry |Christina's husband, lawyer at the law firm Swyn &Dour, specialized in corporate law, dies in car accident. |F | |

|Lutz, Stanley |Harry's father, an early innovator in the textile industry cutthroat operator, estranged from his son for years. |F |

|M | | | |

|Mabel, Mrs |Mother of Christina Lutz, Judge Crease's second wife. |F |

|Madhar Pai, Jawaharal, |Attorney for defendant Kiester |F | |

|"Jerry" | | | |

|Major |Character in Oscar's play, father of Guilielma. |F | |

|Malinovsky, Mr. |Head of the crew hired by Zona Selk to remove Schepperman's painting from Typhon's corporate lobby. |J R | |

|Man, with baby |Tight-rope walker and husband of the girl with bandaged wrists at Esther’s party. |R | |

|Burly man |Man in the Depot Tavern, commander of the local American Legion post. |R | |

|Man, in bed |Man in bed beside Oscar. |F | |

|Man, in black suit |Makes money by organizing the delivery of messages to deceased people, has visited Oscar in hospital to ask his cooperation. |F | |

|Man, on bus |Man talking to Mr Pivner on the bus. |R | |

|Man, checked suit |Man -- the pusher -- waiting for Frank Sinisterra to get money. |R | |

|Man, fat |Husband of woman with ring, in yellow and brown necktie, at the zoo, later at the monastery in Saint Zwingli. |R | |

|Man, green silk necktie |Publicity man, offering Esme a role for the lead in a film on B.V.M. |R | |

|Man, grey flannel suit |Man at the hotel bar, where Otto wants to meet his father, later in bed with Jean. |R | |

|Man, kewpie doll tattoo |Man Otto knows in Central America and talks to in the communal lavatory. |R | |

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|Man, on the ledge |a man Mr Pivner sees on his way home. |R | |

|Man, old 1 |Old man paddling by Christina on her way to Oscar in the hospital, colliding with radiator. |F | |

|Man, old 2 |Neighbor of the Booths, always with a broom and flattened dustpan. |CG | |

|Man, in the street |Man stepping in front of Harry's car. |F | |

|Man, tan suit |Author of “The Trees of Home” at Esther’s party. |R | |

|Man, woman tattoo |“Strangler” in the Depot Tavern. |R | |

|Man, young |Lantern-jawed movie-star at Brown’s party. |R | |

|McCandless, Jack |McCandless’s son, attended school with Billy. |CG | |

|Mr. McCandless |Landlord of the house the Booths rented, geologist, writer. |CG | |

|McCandless, Mrs |Ex-wife of McCandless. |CG | |

|McCandless, Senior |Father of Mr. McCandless, like his son suffering from arthritis at an early age. |CG | |

|McFardle, Jim |Someone Paul knows. |CG | |

|Manomuerto, Fr. |Organist at Real Monasterio de Nuestra Senora. |R | |

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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 |Priest Valentine went to school with, killed by Mr. Inononu. |R | |

|Mary 1 |Silent cousin of Town Carpenter, his dead wife‘s sister. |R | |

|Mary 2 |Old housekeeper companion in the Hemsley house. |F | |

|Maurice |A policeman, trying to carry Santa Claus. |R | |

|Max |Village painter and poet, wearing his coat too long and his trousers too short. |R | |

|Meow, Chairman |Rhoda's cat, drowns in bathtub. |J R | |

|Mess boy |Honduran mess boy on the ship Island Trader. |R | |

|Mexican |Sitting at a table with Hannah in Paris. |R | |

|Milliken, Senator |U.S. Senator from an unnamed Western state with whom J R Family of Companies tries to curry a favor. |J R | |

|Mims, Miss |Recktall Brown's secretary. |R | |

|Mohlenhoff, Shriek |Lawyer Oscar gets from matchbook cover, of Shriek Mohlenhoff & Shransky. |F | |

|Mollenhoff, Herbert |Major Hyde's boss at Endo Appliance. |J R | |

|Moncrieff, Freddie |Amy Joubert's retarded brother, son of Monty Moncrieff, Gibbs' schoolmate. |J R | |

|Moncrieff, Monty |Amy Joubert's father, head of Typhon International until he leaves to accept a Cabinet Undersecretary position in Washington. |J R | |

|Mooneyham, Mr. |Alcoholic President of X-L Lithography. |J R | |

|mortician |Friend of Fuller, living six blocks off Central park. |R | |

|Moyst, Colonel |Army officer involved in Typhon's machinations |J R | |

|Mullins, Kenny |Salesman with General Roll in Dayton, Ohio. |J R | |

|Mullins, Mr. |Sheila's father, Owner of a dry-cleaner on the east side. |CG | |

|Mullins, Sheila |Girl-friend of Billy, Buddhist. |CG | |

|Munk, Arny |Husband of Maude, gay, dies in hotel in Paris. |R | |

|Munk, Maude |Wife of Arny, childless due to an accident, wants to adopt a child and steals baby at Esther's party. |R | |

|Myrna |Secretary at General Roll Company. |J R | |

|N | | | |

|Navy veteran |Writer of short story, hands manila envelope to Otto. |R | |

|Negative positivist |Positive negativist at Viareggio’s and other places. |R | |

|Negro, tall |Seen by Bertha Hebble at the zoo, freeing the birds. |R | |

|newsman |On the ship to Spain, talking to newspaper editor. |R | |

|Newspaper editor |Sued by senor Hermoso. |R | |

|Newspaper man |Man from the newspaper, looking around the house after Elisabeth Booth’s death. |CG | |

|Nick |Zona Selk's chauffeur. |J R | |

|Nigerian |Young Nigerian, studying medicine in the US, selling zebra hides to pay medical school. |CG | |

|Nipples, Sir John |British theatre director famous for his Elisabethan productions. |F | |

|Nowunda President |Marxist-leaning President of Gandia. |J R | |

|Nurse 1 |In Bellevue hospital. |R | |

|Nurse on ship |Blonde treating Stanley. |R | |

|Nurse2 |Bitchy nurse working for Dr. Kissinger. |CG | |

|Nurse 3 |Nurse in hospital where Oscar lies, spills blood on Trish, who bumps into her. |F | |

|O | | | |

|officer |Army PR man at Esther’s party. |R | |

|Orlando |Mrs. Deigh’s mute chauffeur. |R | |

|Orsini, Jack |Doctor, for whom Vorakers had set up an 8 million dollar foundation. |CG | |

|P | | | |

|Parentucelli |Owner of Catania Paving. |J R | |

|Pastora |Girl Wyatt meets in Madrid, they have a daughter. |R | |

|Pecci, Congressman |State legislator, member of the state banking committee, partner in the law firm of Ganganelli, Pecci, and Peretti. |J R | |

|Pecci, Janice |Wife of Congressman Pecci. |J R | |

|Peretti |Partner in the law firm of Ganganelli, Pecci, and Peretti. |J R | |

|Peyton, Bill |Lawyer Trish Hemsley consults, Harry Lutz's colleague. |F | |

|Piscator, Arnold "Nonny"|General counsel for the J R Family of Companies. |J R | |

|Pivner, Mr |Otto‘s father, ‚Dad‘, never meets his son, suffers from diabetes. |R | |

|Pivner, Otto |Writer in the Village, in Central America. |R | |

|Poet, stubby |The companion of critic in the green wool shirt. | | |

|Policemen |At Max’s party. | | |

|Polly |A doll Rev. Gwyon had owned when he was four years old. |R | |

|Pomerance, Mr. |Piscator's brother, who changed his name, head of public relations firm Pomerance Associates. |J R | |

|Poodle |Recktall Brown‘s female dog, killed by Fuller after Brown’s death. |R | |

|Pookie |Dog (Lhasa apso) of Trish Hemsley. |F | |

|Popeye |Woman at costume party who hasn‘t spoken to a man in 16 years. |R | |

|porter |Old janitor at the Real Monasterio, rapist of the little girl in long white stockings. |R | |

|Pott, Mr. |Man at Esther’s party. |R | |

|Preswig, Jack |Lawyer in Oscar's accident case. |F | |

|Priscilla |Character from Otto‘s play. |R | |

|Prislikhoviscel Mr. |Employeé from Ace Fidelity, investigating Oscar's case. |F | |

|Process server |Delivering a subpoena to Oscar. |F | |

|proprietor of hotel |Proprietor of hotel Bella Vista in Guatemala |R | |

|prostitute |Woman who worked the New Stanley and disappeared after alleged murder of Klinger. |CG | |

|R | | | |

|Ragow, Leo |Masha's husband, a slumlord in Cleveland. |F | |

|Ragow, Marian |One of Harry's sisters from Cleveland, Ohio called Masha. |F | |

|Randal |Male leading role in Kiester's film. |F | |

|Real estate woman |In charge of selling the Crease house. |F | |

|Rhoda |Schramm's young lover, pushed out the window by Pecci during a publicity stunt. |J R | |

|Riddle |Character in McCandless novel based on Cruikshank. |CG | |

|Riding, Winifred |Oscar's mother, his father's first wife, daughter of a wealthy Long Island architect and landowner. |F | |

|Rose |Esther‘s retarded sister. |R | |

|Rudy |Designer (e.g. sports clothes for nuns), marries Frank in Paris. |R | |

|Ruth, J. Harret |Former Village official, presiding Village Board member at the time of the erection of Cyclone Seven. |F | |

|S | | | |

|sacristán |At the graveyard in San Zwingli talking to Wyatt. |R | |

|  | | | |

|sailor |Sailor from the Purdue Victory hauled out of the ocean, whom Esme mistakes for Wyatt. |R | |

|Santa Claus |Found by children at the zoo lying on the pavement. |R | |

|Schak, Gustav |Doctor, who has done spirometry on Elisabeth Booth. |CG | |

|Schepperman |Painter, fired as art teacher at J R's school. |J R | |

|Schmuck, Mr. |Businessman, of Twentieth Century-Schmuck at Brown’s party. |R | |

|Schmuck’s assistant |At Brown’s party. |R | |

|Schmuck’s musical |At a bar with other movie people. |R | |

|director | | | |

|Schramm |Writer who lives down the hall from Eigen and Gibbs in the Ninety-Sixth Street apartment building. |J R | |

|Schramm, Mrs. |Schramm's stepmother, younger than Schramm. |J R | |

|Seiko |Colleague of McCandless and Lester. |CG | |

|Selk, Boody |Teenage daughter of Zona Selk. |J R | |

|Selk, Zona |Controls 200,000 shares of Diamond Cable common stock on behalf of her daughter Boody. |J R | |

|Senator |Character in Oscar's play, acquaintance of Bagby. |F | |

|Seraphina |Name Harry Deigh uses for his wife in his book. |R | |

|sexton |New sexton after town carpenter’s death, former station master. |R | |

|Sheets, Major |Army procurement officer who buys wooden picnic forks from J R |J R | |

|Shorter, Billy |Union leader at Eagle Mills. |J R | |

|Sinisterra, Mrs. |Wife of Frank Sinisterra, presumably suffering from cancer though Frank believes it’s indigestion. |R | |

|Sinisterra, Chaby |Son of Frank Sinisterra, Esme‘s lover, a junk-peddler, addict. |R | |

|Sinisterra, Frank |Counterfeiter, takes on identity of Mr. Yàk, is killed by Mr. Inononu. |R | |

|Skinner |Head of sales for Duncan and Company. |J R | |

|Slotko |Washington lawyer, with “top contacts inside the Administration,” whom Paul gets to work on VCR's stock options. |CG | |

|Slomin |Bookie who operates out of the cafeteria managed by Urquhart. |J R | |

|Slyke |Character in McCandless novel based on Lester. |CG | |

|Sneddiger |Doing business with Adolph, offering Paul legal counsel. |CG | |

|Madame Socrate |Cleaning woman from Haiti at McCandless' house. |CG | |

|Solant |Former colleague of McCandless, forger. |CG | |

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|Soldier |Character from Oscar's play. |F | |

|Somali |Working with Lester at some time in the past. |CG | |

|Sonnenschein, Mr. |Businessman at Brown’s party. |R | |

|Spermelli, Cardinal |Mrs. Deigh wants to consult him on behalf of Stanley’s wish to play his composition at Fenestrula, probably exists in her mind |R | |

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|Spot |James B.'s dog trapped in sculpture Cyclone Seven. |F | |

|Stamper |Business and big-game hunting associate of Crawley's |J R | |

|Stanley |Catholic Composer. |R | |

|Stanley‘s mother |At the hospital, commits suicide. |R | |

|Stein, Miss |A young woman, with Mr. Sonnenschein at Brown’s party. |R | |

|Stepan, father |Priest who is a witness in court over one of Trish's law suit, appearing as Mrs Hemsley's confessor. |F | |

|Steyner, Bobbie |Childhood friend of Elisabeth Booth. |CG | |

|students |Oscar's students reading his play, Frank, Jed. |F | |

|Stumpp, Mr. |Connected to Doctor Schak. |CG | |

|Stye, Mr. |African-American insurance agent. |J R | |

|Sucio, Don |Dominican Mrs. Deigh knows. |R | |

|Suggs Jr., H.R. |An adjacent resident of the plaza dominated by Cyclone Seven. |F | |

|Suggs, Hardy |Cab driver, Gibbs claims he stole his right shoe. |J R | |

|Sullivan, Gilbert |Priest whose meetings Fuller attends occasionally, Wyatt is mistaken for him. |R | |

|Sweet, Victor |African American senatorial candidate. |CG | |

|Szyrk, R. |Sculptor, a dog is trapped in his sculpture Cyclone Seven. |J R, F | |

|T | | | |

|Tart |Character from Oscar's play, "a lady friend" of Bagby. |F | |

|Teakell |Senator in Washington, Teakell family seed company got the patent on hybrid corn strains. |CG | |

|Teakell, Vern |District superintendant of schools, killed in car wreck. |J R | |

|Teakell, Cettie |Girl from Saint Tim's, whom Elisabeth and Edie used to know, daughter of senator Teakell, involved in car accident. |C | |

|Terranova, Dr. |The airline insurance company's doctor. |CG | |

|Teets, J. |Agent at Massapequa train station. |J R | |

|Terry |Secretary at General Roll. |J R | |

|Therapist |Physiotherapist treating Oscar after his accident, Ilse will take over his role. |F | |

|Thing, Adeline |A blond girl, marries Herschel. |R | |

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|Thomas |Character from Oscar's play, named after Oscar's grandfather "a hero home from the war." |F | |

|Thomas' father |Character from Oscar's play, worked at the embassy in France, died in 1854. |F | |

|Thomas' mother |Character from Oscar's play, a devout Christian woman. |F | |

|Thomas' uncle |Character in Oscar's play, died intestate. |F | |

|Town Carpenter |Camilla‘s father, sexton at the church. |R | |

|Town Carpenter’s mother |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 |R | |

| |when the house oppressed her. | | |

|Treasury agent |Arresting Mr. Pivner for counterfeiting |R | |

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|Trish's cousin |She is fifteen years old, her father a basketball coach. |F | |

|Trish's third husband |Owned half the timber in Maine. |F | |

|U | | | |

|Ude, Betty Joe |Ude's older daughter. |CG | |

|Ude, Bobbie Joe |Ude's son. |CG, F | |

|Ude, daughter |Ude's younger daughter, still wetting her pants. |CG | |

|Ude, Elton |Evangelical preacher from the rural South. |CG, F | |

|Ude, Judge |Judge in Surrogate Court. |J R | |

|Ude, Mrs. |Ude's wife, ran off with a salesman. |CG | |

|Ude, Sally Joe |Elton Ude's mother, got married at age of fourteen. |CG | |

|Urich |Sergeant Urich, Paul knows him. |CG | |

|Urquhart |Cafeteria manager. |J R | |

|Use-Me Ladies |In the church of Rev. Gwyon. |R | |

|V | | | |

|Valentine, Basil |Art critic of Hungarian descent, author of book about art, Jesuit background. |R | |

|Vansant, J R |Eleven-year-old boy who becomes head of the J R Family of Companies. |J R | |

|Vesendorf, Minna |At Esther’s party, calls herself Izarra. |R | |

|Victor |Bunker's excellent cook. |F | |

|Virginia |Secretary of J R Family of Companies. | | |

|Vogel, Coach |Teaches driver education at J R's school, director of research and development at Ray-X. |J R | |

|Vorakers, F.R. |Elisabeth's and Billy's father, head of Vorakers Consolidated Reserve (VCR). |CG, F | |

|Vorakers, Mrs. |Elisabeth's and Billy's mother, in a nursing home in New Jersey called Hopewell. |CG | |

|Vorakers, Billy |Elisabeth's twenty-four-year-old brother, dies when plane is shot down before the coast of Africa. |CG, F | |

|W | | | |

|Waddams, Nurse |Works first at J R's junior high school, then at the hospital, where Angel, Bast, Cates and Duncan are being treated. |J R | |

|waiter |Waiter on ship to Spain, saves Stanley from jumping overboard. |R | |

|Wall, Mr. |California stockbroker used by J R. |J R | |

|Walldecker, Mr. |Runs Angels East and Angels West. |J R | |

|Weisgall, Dr. |Dentist opposite Agnes Deigh‘s office. |R | |

|Westwood, Clint |Playing the Major in Kiester's film. |F | |

|Whiteback, Principal |Principal of J R's school and president of local bank. |J R | |

|Wiles, Frank |Stockbroker. |J R | |

|William 1 |Uncle of Liz and Billy, staying in Payne Whitney. |CG | |

|William 1 |Character from Oscar's play, the Major's son. |F | |

|Willie |William Gaddis, who makes a few cameo appearances |R | |

|Mr. Wipe |At Esther’s party |R | |

|Wipe's secretary |Mr. Wipe’s personal secretary. |R | |

|Woman, from bank |Woman from Pee Dee Citizen bank at Wayne Fickert's funeral, eating Cheez Doodles. |CG | |

|Woman, fat |Learning Italian, on the ship to Europe. |R | |

|Woman, maternity dress |At Esther’s party, in a collapsed maternity dress. |R | |

|Woman, orchid |At Esther’s party, with orchid upside-down. |R | |

|Woman, with ring |At the real Monasterio, earlier at the zoo, wife of fat man, called Mamie by her husband. |R | |

|Woman, on the subway |Screaming, horrifying Stanley. |R | |

|Woman, tall |Wife of editor of Esther’s book, can’t bear children, but might be pregnant. |R | |

|Woman, at zoo |Dark blond woman, at the zoo with her child. |R | |

|Wonder, George |Head of Wonder Brewery. |J R | |

|Wu, Lenny |New associate at Swyne & Dour. |F | |

|Y | | | |

|Yák |Rumanian, looked for by Mr. Inononu, scholar specialized in ancient Egypt. |R | |

|Yellow Brook, Charlie |Representative of a Native American tribe from whom J R agrees to lease gas and mineral exploration rights for twenty years. |J R | |

|Yount, Dr. |Another doctor whom Elisabeth Booth consulted. |CG | |

|Youth, bearded |At Brown’s party, young art critic, speaking a French no one understands. |R | |

|Z | | | |

|Zefnic, Eddie |Office boy at Mr. Pivner‘s office, who Mr. Pivner befriends. |R | |

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