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| Character | Description |
|---|---|
| Joe Bonham | Joe Bonham is an ordinary young man who was grievously injured while fighting in World War I. Read More |
| Lincoln Beechy | Lincoln Beechy is a famous aviator who comes to Shale City to show off his flying skills. |
| Mike Birkman | Mike Birkman is Kareen's father. He is a miner and has a keen socialist's understanding of society's power structure. |
| Bill Bonham | Bill Bonham, Joe's father, is often referred to as Dad in the novel. He is a kind, hard-working and self-reliant man, but he is considered a failure by society because he doesn't earn a lot of money. |
| Catherine Bonham | Catherine Bonham is the older of Joe's two sisters. |
| Elizabeth Bonham | Elizabeth Bonham is the younger of Joe's two sisters. |
| Macia Bonham | Macia Bonham is Joe's mother. Joe recalls her as hard-working, warm, and comforting. |
| Pinky Carson | Pinky Carson works with Joe and Jose at the bakery. |
| Christ | Christ appears in Joe's hallucination as a character who is somewhat like the Jesus of the Bible's New Testament, but more unorthodox. |
| The Colonel | The Colonel is a British man who has no qualms about sending his troops into danger; his great preoccupation is following the rules and regulations of warfare. |
| Day nurse | The day nurse is Joe's middle-aged nurse at the hospital. She's experienced if a bit gruff, but she seems to like Joe. Joe appreciates her skill and efficiency. |
| Doctor | The doctor is an authority figure who tends to Joe primarily by administering morphine and shows no interest when Joe attempts to communicate. |
| Bonnie Flannigan | Bonnie Flannigan is a girl Joe knows in Colorado, and he meets her again later in Los Angeles. |
| Hamburger man | The hamburger man has a food stand in Shale City, Colorado, where he sells the most delicious hamburgers. Joe and his family eat the hamburgers once a week. |
| Mr. Hargraves | Mr. Hargraves is the superintendent of schools in Shale City, Colorado. |
| Bill Harper | Bill Harper is Joe's best friend from their childhood in Shale City, Colorado. When they are teenagers, he steals Diane, Joe's girlfriend. Later he dies in the war a few months before Joe is wounded. |
| Glen Hogan | Glen Hogan is a handsome, rich guy in Colorado. Many girls, including Joe's girlfriend, Diane, fall for and date him. |
| Howie | Howie is one of Joe's acquaintances in Colorado. Joe and Howie take off for the desert after their girlfriends cheat on them. |
| Jose | Jose is a Puerto Rican who works in the bakery with Joe. He's a model of courtesy, kindness, and dignity. |
| Kareen | Kareen is Joe's fiancée when he goes off to war. They are in love, and she begs him not to go fight. |
| Laurette | Laurette is a prostitute in Colorado who becomes friends with Joe. |
| Lazarus | Lazarus is the nickname given to a Prussian officer who is killed by British soldiers but is repeatedly bombed out of his grave by the Germans. |
| Little old guy | The little old guy is a character Joe imagines constantly scribbling the fate or the death of soldiers who have been or will be killed in the war. |
| Lucky | Lucky is an American prostitute living in Paris during World War I. She sleeps with many American soldiers on leave in the city, including Joe. |
| Man (hospital) | The man is brought into Joe's hospital room to decode Joe's Morse code messages. |
| New nurse | The new nurse is a younger, more sensitive nurse who cares for Joe on Christmas Eve. She communicates with Joe via touch and realizes he's using Morse code to communicate. |
| The Prussian | The Prussian is a soldier who is dead and being gnawed at by a rat. |
| Red-haired guy | The red-haired guy is part of Joe's hallucination. He's one of the main card players at the station where men wait to be taken to the war. |
| Ruby | Ruby is a girl in Shale City, Colorado, who gives most of the boys their first sexual experience. |
| Scotchman | The Scotchman is part of a British regiment in the war but is allowed to sit out the battle because he won't fight for an English king or prime minister, only a Scottish leader. |
| Jody Simmons | Jody Simmons is the boss at the Los Angeles bakery where Joe works. |
| The Limey subaltern | The Limey subaltern is a young and innocent soldier who becomes severely traumatized by the war. |
| The Swede | The Swede is one of the card players in Joe's hallucination about the railway station where men wait to be taken to the war. |
| Stumpy Tesla | Stumpy Tesla is a one-legged madame who runs the brothel in Shale City. |
| Corporal Timlon | Corporal Timlon is a British officer in World War I who is with the troops during the incidents with the Prussian soldier called Lazarus. |
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