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

DESCRIPTION and APPEARANCE

NOVEL

The executor of Voraker's estate.

CG
A nurse Herschel knew and bit.
R
An acquaintance of Fuller, who has a daughter named Elsie.
R
A man who is thought to have shot Klinger.
CG
Real estate agent, through whom the Booths got McCandless house.
CG
Guitar-plunking friend of Rhoda.
JR
Lily's Jewish husband.
F
"Alabama Rammer-Jammer man," the third man in advertisement with Ellery and Morgie. R
Black servant from Oscar's play.
F
Bartender at the hotel, where Otto doesnt meet his father.
R
Manager of the Bast family's General Roll plant in Astoria and husband of Stella Angel. J 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

Anselms
mother
archeologist
A friend of Rev. Gwyon, who had once given a pair of ear-rings to Camilla.
Ardythe, Miss The organist who dropped stone dead at the keyboard with her sharp chin on a high D
during Gwyon and Camillas wedding.
Argentinean Argentine trade commissioner at the wrong party (Esthers party).
Arnold
A friend of Elisabeth.
Aunt May
Sister of the older Rev. Gwyon (Rev. Gwyons nameless father), a steadfast Calvinist and
Wyatts Christian mentor.
B
Baby
One-year-old child of the woman with bandaged wrists at Esthers party, who is stolen by
Maude.
Bagby
General Manager of Thomas' uncle in Oscar's play.
Bag lady
Sister of the homeless, who is drowned by fault of Rev. Ude.
Bailey, Bill
Process server.
Barney
Barkeeper in a Lexington Avenue bar.
Basie, Harold African-American con lawyer, who takes on Oscar's case
Bast, Anne
Unmarried aunt of Edward Bast and Stella Angel, sister of Julia, James and Thomas Bast.
Bast,
Deceased sister of Anne, Julia, James and Thomas Bast.
Charlotte
Bast, Dick
Deceased brother of "Father".
Bast, Edward Composer and son of James Bast and Nellie; nephew of Anne and Julia Bast.

Bast,
"Father"

JR

Deceased younger brother of Dick Bast, father of Anne, Julia, Charlotte, James and
Thomas Bast.
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R
R
R
CG
R

R
F
CG
JR
R
F
JR
JR
JR
JR

Bast, James
Bast, Julia
Bast, Nellie

Composer and father of Edward Bast, who is abroad for the duration of the novel.
JR
Unmarried aunt of Edward Bast and Stella Angel, sister of Anne, James and Thomas Bast. J R
Married Thomas after his first wife's death, cohabited with James Bast, mother of Edward, J R
commits suicide.
Bast, Reuben Orphan, musical prodigy of James Bast.
JR
Bast, Thomas Father of Stella Angel and president of General Roll Co.
JR
Beamish
Lawyer for Triangle Paper Products and the Schramm family.
JR
Beard, the
A friend of Esme with a black beard.
R
Beaton
Typhon's corporate secretary and general counsel.
JR
Begg, Edgar Park Commissioner in Union Falls.
JR
Begg, Eunice Eagle Mills stockholder who sues J R after his takeover of the company.
JR
Begg, Judge
Judge in Union Falls, presiding over the action which dissolves the outstanding stock of J R
R.V.
Eagle Mills.
Ben
Lawyer for Jack Gibbs.
JR
Benny
Employee in architectural office with Wyatt, later in advertising with Ellery, commits
R
suicide.
Bernie
Fat husband of woman with ring, in yellow and brown necktie at the zoo, reappearing in R
Spain.
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 Bildows wife.
R
Bildow, Miss The six-year-old daughter of the Bildows, left by her baby sitter Anselm at some show.
Bilk, Senator A "Neanderthal senator" from Stinking Creek.
F
Orney
Black, Frank Washington lawyer who functions as an unregistered lobbyist for Typhon.
JR
Blaufinger,
Led the German troops against the Allies at St. Fiacre in the Ardennes.
JR
General
Blanfors,
Acquaintance of Trish Hemsley and customer of beauty doctor Kissinger.
F
Lettie
Boatwright,
The Crease family's old plumber, invented by Oscar.
F
Mr.
Bobbie
Lily's brother, who is killed in a car accident driving his Porsche.
F
Bone, Judge Judge on the Second Circuit bench.
F
CJ
Booth,
The asthmatic thirty-three-year old daughter of mineral tycoon F R Vorakers, Paul Booth's CG, F
Elisabeth
wife.
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 Esthers party.
R
Box, General Led Allied troops against Blaufinger at St. Fiacre, director of Typhon International.
JR
Boy, blond
At Viareggios.
R
Boy, haggard
Boy, Italian
Boy, little

At Viareggios with a haggard face.

A chinless boy from Sicily at Maxs party, cousin of dark tall girl at Viareggios.
At the zoo, in front of the polar bear cage.
2

R
R
R

Boy, red cap

At Viareggios.

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.

Paul Booths 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.

R
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 Boschs 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. R

A friend of Irene McCandless, who triggered McCandless jealousy, wants to go to

Yucatn to live with the Indians.
Brisboy
Spokesman for Wagner Funeral Homes.
Brisboy, Mrs. Brisboy's mother, compared to Cosima Wagner.
British, R.A. Tall white-haired man in gray on Browns party, a member of the Royal Academy.
Bronzino
Man at the costume party.
Broos,
Member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, involved in Typhon's machination in
Senator
Gandia.
Brown, Buster A twenty-three or twenty-eight-year-old writer.
Brown,
A businessman, publisher, collector, dealer, engaging Wyatt as forger of old paintings.
Recktall
Bulcke, Miss Secretary at Typhon International.
Burmese
One of Edie's lovers, who went off with all her traveler checks.
Buzzie
Student at J R's Junior High School, killed in Hyde's car crashing into diCephalis.
Byron, Sonny Young black man at Maxs party, accompanied Buster Brown.
C
Cab driver
Driving Valentine and Wyatt.
Captain
The captain of the Purdue Victory.
Carlucci
Character in the Kiester film, the mines manager.
Carol
Secretary at Typhon International.

CG

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

Child eating
rose
Chin, Doris

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

JR
JR
R
R
JR
R
R
JR
CG
JR
R
R
R
F
JR

Crew chief in Vietnam, who tried to kill Paul by rolling a hand grenade under his bed after CG
Paul had turned him in for heroin.

Christiane

Blond model sitting for Wyatt in Paris.

Cibo
Cleaning
women
Cobb, Ira
Coen
Coops, Hoddy
Cowpie
Crawley
Crease,
Justice
Crease,
Captain (later
Justice)
Thomas
Crease, Oscar
L.

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
F
Northern Virginia), was wounded at Ball's Bluff and Antietam, later became a member of
the Holmes Court and died at age 96.

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.
Crmer
Art critic, who writes for La Macule and knows Recktall Brown from the army.
Critic
Tall man in green wool shirt, who looks like "a rather unfortunate print of Mozart."
Cross-eyed
Little cross-eyed girl in long white stockings, raped and killed when eleven years old,
girl
lying next to Camilla on the church yard of San Zwingli.
Crotcher, Mr. A writer, who has translated his book on ant life into nineteen languages.
Cruikshank
Lesters Chief of Station (COS) in Matidi.
Cutler,
Typhon employee, who eventually marries Amy Joubert.
Richard
D
"Dad"
A transient living with Dan and Ann diCephalis, each of whom believes him to be the
other's father.
Dalner
Owner of Dalner Gallery.
Darling,
Advertisement man, from Yale.
Morgie
daughter
Daughter of Pastora and Wyatt.
Davidoff,
Director of public relations for Typhon, then for J R Family of Companies.
David
Davis, Ziff
Actor in Kiester's Civil War film.
D, Doctor
Defense Minister of Gandia, member of Idi tribe from Uaso province.
Decker, W.
Scam artist posing as an underwriter.
Deleserea
African-American domestic employed by Zona Selk.
Deigh, Agnes Literary agent, mother to every fairy in the city, attempts suicide.
Deigh, Harry Agnes Deigh's husband, who dies falling off a bar stool in Hollywood.
Deigh, Mrs.
Agnes mother, who lives in Rome on the via Flaminia.
Deigh, Mr.
Agness brother, a writer, missed in WWII.
DiCephalis,
Wife of J R's school psychometrician.
Ann
DiCephalis,
Psychometrician at J R's school, he is lost in Teletravel transmission.
4

R
R
R
R
CG
JR

JR
R
R
R
JR
F
JR
JR
JR
R
R
R
R
JR
JR

Dan
DiCephalis,
Donny
DiCephalis,
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

Son of Ann and Dan DiCephalis.

JR

Daughter of Ann and Dan DiCephalis.

JR

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.
Charless mother, a Christian Scientist.
Harry Lutz's secretary.
A boarding-house keeper, singing in the church of Rev. Gwyon.
Deputy U.S. Marshall.
Pauls 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 Esthers 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 Esthers book, married to the tall woman.

Girl with whom Otto used to go out in College (Radcliffe), then Maxs girl friend,
working for Brown.
Eigen, David Four-year-old son of Thomas and Marian Eigen.
Eigen, Marian Wife of Thomas Eigen.
Eigen,
Writer who shares the Ninety-Sixth apartment with Gibbs, working as speech writer.
Thomas
Ellery
Advertising man, Esthers lover.
Elsie
Daughter of Adeline, Fullers acquaintance, died at age of three.
Employe at Woman at Trish's cleaner.
cleaners
Ernie
Big unshaven man, who looks like Ernest Hemingway

R
R

Esme

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.

German woman who wants her daughter to be canonized by Don Sucio.

Patient at the asylum where Reverend Gwyon stays.

Someone Agnes knows in Rome, who has his own chapel beside the Vatican.

R
R

Esther
Eulalio, Fr. 1
Eulalio, Fr. 2
F
Fahrtmesser,
Frau
Mr Farisy
F,
Monseigneur

JR
JR
JR
R
R
F
R

R
R
R

Feasley, Ed
Feasley, Mr.
Feasley, Mrs.
Fedders, Mr.
Feddle
Feddle, Mrs

He studied with Otto at Harvard and is Max in Ottos play.

Ed Feasleys father, owner of battleships.
Ed Feasleys mother.
Official with the Teacher's Union.
Poet to be published soon.
Wife of Mr Feddle.

R
R
R
JR
R
R

Fell, Dr.
Doctor mistreating Wyatt, also Otto.
Fickert, Billey Mother of Wayne Fickert, who is going to play a role in a movie called The Wayne
Fickert Story.
Fickert, Earl Father of Wayne Fickert running a junkyard in Mississippi.
Fickert,
Nine year old son of Billey and Earl Fickert, who drowns during baptism by Reverend
Wayne
Ude in South Carolina's Pee Dee river.
Flesch, Miss Teacher and "curriculum specialist" at J R's school, later hired by Davidoff as "project
director."
Florence
Secretary at Typhon International.
Flower-Cart Selling Lilies to Wyatt.
Man
Ford
"Program Specialist" for the Foundation.
Frank
Friend of Rudy.
Franks, Jesse Tattooed man Otto knows in Central America:

R
CG, F

Frenchman
Frika, Anga
Friend of
Benny
Fuller
G
Gall
Ganganelli
Gates, Pearly
Gench, Barry

Frenchman from Lyon at Browns 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 Browns servant from Barbados.

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 Ottos 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
JR
CG
F

Dark girl at Bella Vista hotel serving lunch to Otto.

A girl at Max's party.
A girl at Esthers party.

R
R
R

Man in purple dress at costume party.

George
Gibbs, Jack
Gibbs, Rose
Ginny
Giono
Giulielma
Girl,
bandaged
Girl, dark
Girl, flat
Girl, green
tongue
Girl, little
colored

CG, F
CG, F
JR
JR
R
JR
R
R

R
JR
JR
JR
R
F
R

Girl, little
Little girl at
the zoo
Girl, pale
Girl, small
girl
Glancy
Gold, Mr.

Seven year old girl from the apartment below Esthers, fetching sleeping pills for her
mother, who later dies.
Girl in front of polar bear cage.

A girl seen by Stanley in Rome reading Forster.

Smallest of three girls at the zoo, who loses her balloon.

R
R

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 Ottos novel.
Works at a Cadillac dealership in Massapequa.
Insurance man from Ace Worldwide Fidelity.

CG
JR
CG

Gordon
Gottlieb, Mr.
Gribble,
Frank
Grimes, Cissie Mother of Edie Grimes.
Grimes, Edie Elisabeths childhood friend.
Grimes, Mr. Father of Edie Grimes, successor of VCR, on the board of the airline and airline's
insurance company, whose plane crashes with Elisabeth Booth injured.
Grimes,
Edie's sister.
Squeekie
Grissom
Lawyer.
Grocery man Delivering Elisabeth's order for dinner with McCandless.
Grynszpan,
Pseudonym concocted by Gibbs for purposes of financial evasion.
Hyman
Guest of
Writer at Esthers party.
honor
Guy from
A friend of Elisabeth, who wanted to become a great actor.
Florida
Gwen
Character in McCandless novel based on Irene.

R
JR
F

Gwyon boy
Gwyon,
Camilla
Gwyon, John
H.
Gwyon, Rev.
Gwyon,
Reverend
Gwyon, Wyatt
H
Hadrian
Haight,
Father
Haight,
General
Hall, Albert

Had taken his life by drowning when nine years old.

Rev. Gwyons wife, dying of appendicitis on voyage to Spain.

R
R

18th century ancestor of the Gwyon family, killed by "disaffectionate Indians.

CG
CG, F
CG
CG
CG
CG
JR
R
CG
CG

Father of Rev. Gwyon and brother of Aunt May.

R
Camillas husband, Wyatts father, minister at the First Congregational Church, dies in an R
asylum.
Son of Camilla and Rev. Gwyon, painter.
R
Mrs. Deighs 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.

Hall, Victoria
Han
Handler,
Doctor
Hannah
"Harry's
father"
Heavy-necked
person
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,

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
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.

Cleaning woman at the zoo.

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

McCandlesss second wife, who left him two years before the novels opening.
CG
Character from Oscar's play, "our 'noble savage'" who runs away and returns at the end of F
the play.
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 mothers
death.
Wife of the critic in the green wool shirt.

Deedee
Jean
Jeannie
Jenner, Mr.
Jerry
Jheejheeboy
Jim
John
Jones, R.L.
Joubert,
Emily
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

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. Pivners 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.
Amy and Lucien Joubert's seven-year-old son.

R
CG
R
R
CG, F
F
R
R
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.
Wyatts art teacher in Munich.
Pauls 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 Esthers 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
9

JR

CG
CG

JR
CG
JR
CG
F
F

Lily's second Half Oscar's age, she withdraws from Lily's divorce case.
lawyer
Lily's parents Joined the church of Rev. Ude.
Lopots, Mr.
Doctor Gustav Schaks attorney, F X Lopots Attorney.

Ludy
Lutz,
Christina
Lutz, Eleanor
Lutz, Harry

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
F

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 Esthers 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.

Man at the hotel bar, where Otto wants to meet his father, later in bed with Jean.

Man Otto knows in Central America and talks to in the communal lavatory.

a man Mr Pivner sees on his way home.

Lutz, Stanley
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

F
CG

F
F
F

R
R

Old man paddling by Christina on her way to Oscar in the hospital, colliding with radiator. F
Neighbor of the Booths, always with a broom and flattened dustpan.
CG
Man stepping in front of Harry's car.
F
Author of The Trees of Home at Esthers party.
Strangler in the Depot Tavern.
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Man, young
McCandless,
Jack
Mr.
McCandless
McCandless,
Mrs
McCandless,
Senior
McFardle,
Jim
Manomuerto,
Fr.

Lantern-jawed movie-star at Browns party.

McCandlesss 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.

Marga

Guest in the hotel Frank Sinisterra stays at in Madrid, Wyatts lover for a few nights.

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

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

Silent cousin of Town Carpenter, his dead wifes 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.

R
F
R
R
JR

Honduran mess boy on the ship Island Trader.

R
Sitting at a table with Hannah in Paris.
R
U.S. Senator from an unnamed Western state with whom J R Family of Companies tries to J R
curry a favor.
Recktall Brown's secretary.
R
Lawyer Oscar gets from matchbook cover, of Shriek Mohlenhoff & Shransky.
F
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.

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Munk, Maude Wife of Arny, childless due to an accident, wants to adopt a child and steals baby at
Esther's party.
Myrna
Secretary at General Roll Company.
N
Navy veteran Writer of short story, hands manila envelope to Otto.
Negative
Positive negativist at Viareggios and other places.
positivist
Negro, tall
Seen by Bertha Hebble at the zoo, freeing the birds.
newsman
On the ship to Spain, talking to newspaper editor.
Newspaper
Sued by senor Hermoso.
editor
Newspaper
Man from the newspaper, looking around the house after Elisabeth Booths death.
man
Nick
Zona Selk's chauffeur.
Nigerian
Young Nigerian, studying medicine in the US, selling zebra hides to pay medical school.
Nipples, Sir
British theatre director famous for his Elisabethan productions.
John
Nowunda
Marxist-leaning President of Gandia.
President
Nurse 1
In Bellevue hospital.
Nurse on ship Blonde treating Stanley.
Nurse2
Bitchy nurse working for Dr. Kissinger.
Nurse 3
Nurse in hospital where Oscar lies, spills blood on Trish, who bumps into her.
O
officer
Army PR man at Esthers party.
Orlando
Mrs. Deighs mute chauffeur.
Orsini, Jack Doctor, for whom Vorakers had set up an 8 million dollar foundation.
P
Parentucelli
Pastora
Pecci,
Congressman
Pecci, Janice
Peretti
Peyton, Bill
Piscator,
Arnold
"Nonny"
Pivner, Mr
Pivner, Otto
Poet, stubby
Policemen
Polly
Pomerance,
Mr.
Poodle

R
JR
R
R
R
R
R
CG
JR
CG
F
JR
R
R
CG
F
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

Ottos 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 Maxs 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 Browns female dog, killed by Fuller after Browns death.

R
R

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JR
JR
F
JR

R
JR
R

Pookie
Popeye
porter

Dog (Lhasa apso) of Trish Hemsley.

Woman at costume party who hasnt spoken to a man in 16 years.
Old janitor at the Real Monasterio, rapist of the little girl in long white stockings.

F
R
R

Pott, Mr.
Preswig, Jack
Priscilla
Prislikhoviscel
Mr.
Process server
proprietor of
hotel
prostitute
R
Ragow, Leo
Ragow,
Marian
Randal
Real estate
woman
Rhoda
Riddle
Riding,
Winifred
Rose
Rudy
Ruth, J.
Harret
S
sacristn

Man at Esthers party.

Lawyer in Oscar's accident case.
Character from Ottos play.
Employe 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

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.
Esthers 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.

sailor
Santa Claus
Schak, Gustav
Schepperman
Schmuck, Mr.
Schmucks
assistant
Schmucks
musical
director
Schramm

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.
Doctor, who has done spirometry on Elisabeth Booth.
Painter, fired as art teacher at J R's school.
Businessman, of Twentieth Century-Schmuck at Browns party.
At Browns party.

R
R
CG
JR
R
R

At a bar with other movie people.

Schramm,
Mrs.
Seiko
Selk, Boody

R
R
F

Writer who lives down the hall from Eigen and Gibbs in the Ninety-Sixth Street apartment J R
building.
Schramm's stepmother, younger than Schramm.
JR
Colleague of McCandless and Lester.
Teenage daughter of Zona Selk.

CG
JR
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Controls 200,000 shares of Diamond Cable common stock on behalf of her daughter
Boody.
Senator
Character in Oscar's play, acquaintance of Bagby.
Seraphina
Name Harry Deigh uses for his wife in his book.
sexton
New sexton after town carpenters death, former station master.
Sheets, Major Army procurement officer who buys wooden picnic forks from J R
Shorter, Billy Union leader at Eagle Mills.
Sinisterra,
Wife of Frank Sinisterra, presumably suffering from cancer though Frank believes its
Mrs.
indigestion.
Sinisterra,
Son of Frank Sinisterra, Esmes lover, a junk-peddler, addict.
Chaby
Sinisterra,
Counterfeiter, takes on identity of Mr. Yk, is killed by Mr. Inononu.
Frank
Skinner
Head of sales for Duncan and Company.
Slotko
Washington lawyer, with top contacts inside the Administration, whom Paul gets to
work on VCR's stock options.
Slomin
Bookie who operates out of the cafeteria managed by Urquhart.
Slyke
Character in McCandless novel based on Lester.
Sneddiger
Doing business with Adolph, offering Paul legal counsel.
Madame
Cleaning woman from Haiti at McCandless' house.
Socrate
Solant
Former colleague of McCandless, forger.

JR

Soldier
Somali
Sonnenschein,
Mr.
Spermelli,
Cardinal
Spot
Stamper
Stanley
Stanleys
mother
Stein, Miss
Stepan, father

Character from Oscar's play.

Working with Lester at some time in the past.
Businessman at Browns party.

F
CG
R

Mrs. Deigh wants to consult him on behalf of Stanleys 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.

A young woman, with Mr. Sonnenschein at Browns 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

Steyner,
Bobbie
students
Stumpp, Mr.
Stye, Mr.
Sucio, Don
Suggs Jr.,
H.R.
Suggs, Hardy
Sullivan,

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R
R
JR
JR
R
R
R
JR
CG
JR
CG
CG
CG
CG

F
JR
R
R

CG

Gilbert
Sweet, Victor
Szyrk, R.
T
Tart
Teakell
Teakell, Vern

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.

F
Senator in Washington, Teakell family seed company got the patent on hybrid corn strains. CG
District superintendant of schools, killed in car wreck.

JR

Teakell, Cettie Girl from Saint Tim's, whom Elisabeth and Edie used to know, daughter of senator
Teakell, involved in car accident.
Terranova,
The airline insurance company's doctor.
Dr.
Teets, J.
Agent at Massapequa train station.
Terry
Secretary at General Roll.
Therapist
Physiotherapist treating Oscar after his accident, Ilse will take over his role.

Thing,
Adeline

A blond girl, marries Herschel.

Thomas
Thomas'
father
Thomas'
mother
Thomas'
uncle
Town
Carpenter
Town
Carpenters
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

Character from Oscar's play, named after Oscar's grandfather "a hero home from the war." F
Character from Oscar's play, worked at the embassy in France, died in 1854.
F

CG
JR
JR
F

Character from Oscar's play, a devout Christian woman.

Character in Oscar's play, died intestate.

Camillas father, sexton at the church.

Has had a habit of squating at the foot of the granite Civil War monument in the center of R
town in any weather under a blanket when the house oppressed her.
Arresting Mr. Pivner for counterfeiting
.
She is fifteen years old, her father a basketball coach.
Owned half the timber in Maine.

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.

CG
CG, F
JR
CG
CG
CG

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F

Urquhart

Cafeteria manager.

JR

Use-Me
Ladies
V

In the church of Rev. Gwyon.

Valentine,
Basil
Vansant, J R
Vesendorf,
Minna
Victor
Virginia
Vogel, Coach
Vorakers, F.R.
Vorakers,
Mrs.
Vorakers,
Billy
W
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

Art critic of Hungarian descent, author of book about art, Jesuit background.

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

At Esthers 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 Ray-X.
Elisabeth's and Billy's father, head of Vorakers Consolidated Reserve (VCR).
Elisabeth's and Billy's mother, in a nursing home in New Jersey called Hopewell.

F
JR
CG, F
CG

Elisabeth's twenty-four-year-old brother, dies when plane is shot down before the coast of CG, F
Africa.
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 Deighs 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 Esthers party
Mr. Wipes 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 Esthers party, in a collapsed maternity dress.

R
R

At Esthers party, with orchid upside-down.

R
JR
JR

At the real Monasterio, earlier at the zoo, wife of fat man, called Mamie by her husband. R
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Woman, on
the subway
Woman, tall
Woman, at
zoo
Wonder,
George
Wu, Lenny
Y
Yk
Yellow Brook,
Charlie
Yount, Dr.
Youth,
bearded
Z
Zefnic, Eddie

Screaming, horrifying Stanley.

Wife of editor of Esthers book, cant 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.

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 Browns party, young art critic, speaking a French no one understands.

R
JR

Office boy at Mr. Pivners office, who Mr. Pivner befriends.

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R