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| Character | Description |
|---|---|
| Nick Adams | Nick Adams is a taciturn sportsman and wounded veteran; he prizes adventure and solitude. Read More |
| Hubert Elliot | In "Mr. Elliot and Mrs. Elliot," Hubert Elliot is a Harvard Law student and poet; he is passive, virginal, and awkward. Read More |
| Harold Krebs | In "Soldier's Home" Harold Krebs is a war veteran who has trouble readjusting to small-town life after the war; he recoils from women and from his mother. Read More |
| Adolph | In "The Battler," Adolph is a former prize-fighter, scarred physically and mentally; he is too aggressive to get along in the world and lives in the woods. |
| Bill | In "Three-Day Blow," teenage Bill does his best to act like a man, quaffing his father's liquor and scorning love. |
| Billy Tabeshaw | In "The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife," Billy Tabeshaw uneasily watches the altercation between the doctor and Dick Boulton. |
| Boyle | In Chapter 8, Boyle is the more law-abiding of the two policemen; he objects to Drevitts's summarily shooting suspects because he thinks they will get in trouble. |
| Bugs | In "The Battler," Bugs is a homeless man who takes care of Adolph the ex-prizefighter; he is generous with Nick, but his first priority is Adolph. |
| Dick Boulton | In "The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife," Dick is an irreverent man the doctor hires to saw some logs; he lives in the Indian camp where there are rumors he is white. |
| Doctor's wife | The doctor's wife, married to Henry Adams, is Nick's mother, though she is seldom called that; she is a Christian Scientist. |
| Drevitts | Drevitts is a bigoted policeman who shoots two suspected criminals in Chapter 8; he justifies his action by saying, "They're criminals, ain't they? ... They're wops, ain't they?" |
| Eddy | In "The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife," Eddy is the son of Dick Boulton; Eddy laughs at something Dick says after the altercation with the doctor. |
| Mrs. Elliot | Cornelia, or Catulina, Elliot is the 40-year-old bride in "Mr. Elliot and Mrs. Elliot;" she spends an unhappy summer in Europe until her girlfriend moves in with her and Mr. Elliot. |
| George | In "Cross-Country Snow," George is an avid skier and a friend of Nick's whom Nick calls "Gidge"; he may not be the same character as "Uncle George" in "Indian Camp." Uncle George is considerably older than Nick. |
| Joe | Joe is a naïve young man and the narrator of "My Old Man;" he admires his father tremendously and shuts out any hints his father might not be so worthy of admiration. |
| Joe's old man | The father in "My Old Man" is referred to by the last name Butler at the end of the story; he is a morally unscrupulous jockey who later becomes a racehorse owner. |
| King of Greece | The King in "L'Envoi" is under house arrest; although a coup is going on, he stays focused on simple pleasures like his garden. |
| Helen Krebs | Helen Krebs is the younger, baseball-playing sister of Krebs, the main character of "Soldier's Home." |
| Luis | In Chapter 13, Luis is an exuberant matador who irresponsibly gets drunk before his bullfight. |
| Marjorie | Marjorie is Nick's girlfriend at the start of "The Three-Day Blow;" she takes the news of their break-up somewhat coolly. |
| Maera | In Chapter 13, Maera is a responsible bullfighter who tries to get Luis to sober up; in Chapter 14, he is gored in a bullfight and dies of his wounds. |
| Nick's father | Nick's father, Henry Adams, is a doctor; he is a gruff man, fond of his son, and prickly with his hired men. |
| Peduzzi | In "Out of Season," Peduzzi is a day laborer who likes to get drunk; he tries to guide a married couple on an illegal, unlicensed fishing trip. |
| The Revolutionist | In "The Revolutionist," the unnamed main character is a naïve Hungarian man who believes the world revolution will start in Italy; he holds to these beliefs even though they get him tortured in Hungary and jailed in Switzerland. |
| Sam Cardinella | In Chapter 15, Sam is executed by hanging; he loses control of his bodily functions in the face of death. |
| Uncle George | In "Indian Camp," Uncle George helps Nick's father deliver a baby, and he gets bitten for his trouble; Uncle George may not be the same character as George in "Cross-Country Snow" because Uncle George is considerably older than Nick. |
| Villalta | Villalta is a skilled matador who becomes one with the bull in Chapter 12. |
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