Characters
- Basil March - Businessman from Boston who moves to New York city to start a new periodical.
- Fulkerson - Hopeful entrepreneur who claims to originate the idea of Every Other Week.
- Colonel Woodburn - Wealthy Virginia resident who was a colonel for the Confederacy in the American Civil War. He believes slavery could work if they made the system more efficient.
- Berthold Lindau - German-born member of the lower class. He fought for the north in the Civil War and lost his hand. He advocates for workers' rights.
- Mr. Dryfoos - rich midwesterner who made his money on natural gas. He is anti-union and bankrolls Every Other Week as a way to encourage his son to go into business.
- Conrad Dryfoos - son of Mr. Dryfoos. He works at Every Other Week because of his father, who is trying to persuade him to become a businessman instead of an Episcopalian priest. He enjoys helping those who are less fortunate.
- Angus Beaton - an artist for Every Other Week.
- Alma Leighton - a beautiful aspiring artist who contributes drawings to Every Other Week.
- Margaret Vance - a New York society girl who leads a nontraditional life engaging in charity work. Plays banjo.
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Famous quotes containing the word characters:
“Waxed-fleshed out-patients
Still vague from accidents,
And characters in long coats
Deep in the litter-baskets
All dodging the toad work
By being stupid or weak.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
“For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better.”
—E.M. (Edward Morgan)
“We are like travellers using the cinders of a volcano to roast their eggs. Whilst we see that it always stands ready to clothe what we would say, we cannot avoid the question whether the characters are not significant of themselves.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)