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BABBITT: MAY ARNOLD
May Arnold is a middle-aged widow with whom Paul Riesling is having an affair. Babbitt sees the pair together in Chicago.
^^^^^^^^^^BABBITT: KATHARINE \"TINKA\" BABBITT
Tinka is Babbitt\'s ten-year-old daughter. Because she\'s too young to have been spoiled by life in Zenith, she gives Babbitt comfort when the rest of his family irritates him.
^^^^^^^^^^BABBITT: FULTON BEMIS
Bemis is a railway clerk; he and Babbitt are the two male, middle-aged members of the Bunch, Tanis Judique\'s group of friends.
^^^^^^^^^^BABBITT: DR. A. I. DILLING
Dr. Dilling is Mrs. Babbitt\'s surgeon and the leader of the Good Citizens\' League.
^^^^^^^^^^BABBITT: SIR GERALD DOAK
A visiting British millionaire, Sir Gerald is much entertained by society hostesses like Lucile McKelvey, who assume he\'s interested in art and culture. In fact as Babbitt happily discovers when he befriends Doak in Chicago, Doak is as concerned with profits and as ignorant of art as any Zenith businessman.
^^^^^^^^^^BABBITT: SAM DOPPELBRAU
Doppelbrau is Babbitt\'s neighbor. Babbitt dislikes him for his drunken noisy parties. Later, the rebellious Babbitt becomes a participant in those parties.
^^^^^^^^^^BABBITT: THE REVEREND JOHN JENNISON DREW
Reverend Drew is the pastor of the Chatham Road Presbyterian Church. Drew represents the way religion in Zenith has been corrupted by business. He runs his church like a successful corporation, and he invites Babbitt to use business techniques to increase Sunday School attendance.
^^^^^^^^^^BABBITT: WILLIAM WASHINGTON EATHORNE
Eathorne is the head of Zenith\'s oldest and richest family. Banker Eathorne is to Babbitt an awe-inspiring figure. His somber, dignified manner is very different from the backslapping joking of Babbitt and his Boosters\' Club friends, but he\'s just as profit-hungry and unethical as the rest of the Zenith business community.
^^^^^^^^^^BABBITT: KENNETH ESCOTT
Escott is a young reporter on the Zenith Advocate-Times. Escott is hired to promote Reverend Drew\'s Presbyterian Church. Like Verona Babbitt, he considers himself a \"radical,\" and their shared beliefs lead to romance and marriage. But Escott is hardly more liberal than Babbitt, and no more honest: he abandons his journalistic ideals to take a high-paying job.
^^^^^^^^^^BABBITT: SIDNEY FINKELSTEIN
Finkelstein is a clothing buyer and a member of the Athletic Club.
^^^^^^^^^^BABBITT: STANLEY GRAFF
A salesman for Babbitt-Thompson Realty, Graff is fired for dishonesty but accuses Babbitt of being just as dishonest.
^^^^^^^^^^BABBITT: HEALEY HANSON
Hanson is a saloon owner who sells Babbitt illegal liquor.
^^^^^^^^^^BABBITT: ORVILLE JONES
Jones is a laundry owner who is invited to the Babbitt\'s dinner party.
^^^^^^^^^^BABBITT: EUNICE LITTLEFIELD
Eunice is the seventeen-year-old daughter of Howard Littlefield. Eunice is a carefree, movie-mad girl who represents some of the ways America\'s youth was changing in the 1920s. At the end of the novel she elopes with Ted Babbitt.
^^^^^^^^^^BABBITT: HOWARD LITTLEFIELD
One of Babbitt\'s neighbors, Littlefield has a Ph.D. in economics and delights in showing off his knowledge. Yet most of what he knows is petty and dull, and his opinions are no more thoughtful than the opinions of any other Zenith businessman.
^^^^^^^^^^BABBITT: CONRAD LYTE
Lyte is a greedy speculator who is one of Babbitt\'s best clients.
^^^^^^^^^^BABBITT: THERESA MCGOUN
Theresa McGoun is Babbitt\'s highly efficient secretary. He briefly considers having an affair with her.
^^^^^^^^^^BABBITT: CHARLES MCKELVEY
A college classmate of Babbitt, McKelvey is now a wealthy, powerful, not very honest contractor who represents the rising American aristocracy. The Babbitts invite the McKelveys to dinner only to discover that the McKelveys are not interested in having middle-class friends.
^^^^^^^^^^BABBITT: LUCILE MCKELVEY
Lucile is Charles McKelvey\'s wife. She considers herself superior to the middle-class Babbitts, preferring to entertain English aristocrats like Sir Gerald Doak.
^^^^^^^^^^BABBITT: MIKE MONDAY
Monday is a prizefighter turned famous evangelist. He\'s based on a real evangelist of the 1920s, Billy Sunday.
^^^^^^^^^^BABBITT: OPAL EMERSON MUDGE
Opal Mudge is a field-lecturer of the American New Thought League. She gives a ridiculous speech on \"Cultivating the Sun Spirit\" to an audience that includes the enthusiastic Mrs. Babbitt and the irritated Babbitt.
^^^^^^^^^^BABBITT: CARRIE NORK
Carrie Nork is a spinsterish member of the Bunch.
^^^^^^^^^^BABBITT: JAKE OFFUTT
Offutt is a crooked political boss. He plots shady business deals with the help of Babbitt\'s father-in-law.
^^^^^^^^^^BABBITT: ED OVERBROOK
Overbrook is an unsuccessful college classmate of Babbitt. He and his wife are prevented by class barriers from becoming the Babbitts\' friends, just as those barriers prevent the Babbitts from becoming the McKelveys\' friends.
^^^^^^^^^^BABBITT: JOE PARADISE
Paradise is a wilderness guide in Maine. He disappoints Babbitt by showing himself to be as lazy, profit hungry, and ignorant of nature as any Zenith businessman.
^^^^^^^^^^BABBITT: LUCAS PROUT
Prout is a conservative mattress manufacturer, who with Babbitt\'s help is elected mayor.
^^^^^^^^^^BABBITT: PROFESSOR JOSEPH K. PUMPHREY
Professor Pumphrey is the owner of the Riteway Business College and a member of the Athletic Club.
^^^^^^^^^^BABBITT: IDA PUTIAK
Ida Putiak is an empty-headed, teenaged manicurist, whom Babbitt takes out on a disastrous date.
^^^^^^^^^^BABBITT: SHELDON SMEETH
Smeeth is the choir director at the Presbyterian Church. He annoys Babbitt with his constant smile and embarrassing lectures about sex.
^^^^^^^^^^BABBITT: COLONEL RUTHERFORD SNOW
Colonel Snow is the owner of the Advocate-Times and one of the leaders of the Good Citizens\' League.
^^^^^^^^^^BABBITT: MINNIE SONNTAG
Minnie Sonntag is a sarcastic young member of the Bunch.
^^^^^^^^^^BABBITT: EDDIE SWANSON
Babbitt\'s neighbor, Swanson is a sales agent for Javelin Motors.
^^^^^^^^^^BABBITT: LOUETTA SWANSON
Louetta is Eddie Swanson\'s bored, flirtatious young wife. She first ignores Babbitt\'s advances, later responds to them.
^^^^^^^^^^BABBITT: HENRY T. THOMPSON
Thompson is Babbitt\'s father-in-law and partner. His continued dealings with Jake Offutt prove that the older generation in Zenith is no more honest than are Babbitt and his peers.
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