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| (The Boy) He carries vitriol and dies at the end of the book, he marries Rose. Lacks imagination, fellow feeling, and can hardly sympathize with others; he suffers on his own venom (vitriol); he comes close to pitying Rose, but pity never quite gets a hold of him (Mrs. Yankow said that); Music made him cry; he is a Catholic and determined to be damned. He knows for sure that there is a Hell and he trusts it, but only knows of the idea of Heaven. |
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Marries Pinkie and used to be good but now knows she has already committed a mortal sin so lives a sinful life and has a change of heart at the end. She cannot stand to face the fact that Pinkie would be damned alone; she is a Good that completes Pinkie’s Evil. |
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| Big lady stays at bars, connects with Fred before he dies and goes all Sherlock Homes on Pinkie. She is not religious, but says she knows the difference between right and wrong. She possesses an innate kindness and gets obsessed with doing what is right; it is exciting to her. |
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| Ida’s ex-husband whom she considers returning to at the end of the novel when she gets ready to ask the Board if she should. |
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| (henchman) has a final change of will at the end and gives up and helps Ida not Pinkie. He is Pinkie’s right-hand man and is having n affair with Frank’s wife. |
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| (Pinkie's lawyer) Pinkie tries to send him away after he has like a mid-life crisis. He is one of the only lawyers in the area that will work with any mobsters. He regrets marrying his wife (has been married for 25 years), and thinks that the world we live in right now is Hell (he tells that to Pinkie when Pinkie visits him). |
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| (henchman) Pinkie killed him by making it look like he fell down the stairs. He has been a somewhat good friend of Hale and thought that the method of Hale’s death was horrible. After they killed Hale he was sick to his stomach and was really upset about it. Pinkie often accuses him of going “milky” which means going soft. He is one of the two characters that can get Pinkie caught for Hale’s murder. |
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| (henchman) - Pinkie scares him away; he realizes that Pinkie murdered Spicer and thinks that Pinkie is too violent and doesn’t know what he’s doing. He then goes to Colleoni for a job and talks to Crab; Crab refuses him and ____ then talks to Ida and gives away some information about Rose and Pinkie. He drinks heavily. |
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| (gang moll) Frank’s wife; she is having an affair with Dallow |
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| (blind gang member) He is the owner of where Pinkie stays. Although he is blind, he vacuums and irons around the house well. |
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| often referred to as Mr. Corkery to give the distinction that he is not just another mob member with a nickname (like Dallow, Spicer, etc.); he gives Ida te excuse to return to Brighton and investigate Hale’s death. He stays with her throughout the novel, but is tired of Ida’s persistence to do good by the end of the book. |
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| Leader of rival gang in Brighton, and stays at the Cosmopolitan; he gets his men to do all his dirty work for him. Mrs. Yankow thinks he is a worse gangster than Pinkie because he doesn’t like to get his hands dirty. He wears the nicest clothes, the nicest jewelry, and stays at the nicest places. |
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| (Kolly Kibber) the guy at the beginning and leaves the cards, behind and then gets killed by Pinkie’s gang. He was a journalist and once worked for Kite’s gang. When he gives some information to Colleoni that gets Kite killed, Pinkie decides that it is time for Hale to die. He ends up dying of a heart attack when he is being choked. |
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| (Giggly girl in beach chair) This is the girl that Hale tried to pick up on the beach. Ida first came to her when she began her investigation. |
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| a bookie that Pinkie threatened because he paid protection money to Colleoni. He also use to be a part of Kite’s mob. He is very old and associates with Colleoni after Kite is killed. At the beginning of the novel Pinkie goes to this man’s house and carves him. |
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| A mobster that use to be in Kite’s mob, but when Colleoni came into Brighton and took control this guy went to him to try to gain something in his mob. He use to be friends with Dallow and Cubitt. Cubitt comes to him after he leaves Pinkie’s mob, but this man does not give him any jobs or anything. |
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| Founder of the rival gang of Colleoni, takes Pinkie under his wing, and is a mentor to him. When Hale turns to Colleoni, Colleoni’s men go to carve this man, but accidentally kill him. |
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| Bellhop at the Cosmopolitan; from the same neighborhood as Pinkie and Rose; does something with his life; he does real work and tries to make a living unlike Pinkie. |
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| he is from a bar that Ida goes to a lot; he sits with Ida at the Board that she believes works. |
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| the other new girl at Snow's who Rose went and talked to after she got married. She is very jealous of Rose’s married life and seems to be the “new Rose” at Snow’s (bossed around and taken advantage of by the manager and other waitresses). |
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| Spicer’s girlfriend that Pinkie almost has sex with. |
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| A horse that Ida bets on and wins a lot of money |
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| Talks to Ida, when Ida goes to the law firm trying to talk to people about Hale, he talks to Ida before she enters and tells her to say he sent her. |
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| They appear a few times and play music, Pinkie gets mad at them once. |
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| She is the friend of Molly at the beginning of the book, and sits with her looking for a date. |
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| The Priest that Rose decides to confess her deeds to before getting married to Pinkie. She eventually chooses against it and runs away but does come back after Pinkie dies. |
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| Pinkie’s parents. Participated in orgies which is why Pinkie is so fearful and against sex and opening up. |
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| He is the bartender at Henekey’s, (I think) he is Ida confidant and companion |
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| A bookie who has refused to pay Pinkie |
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