Jonathan Troy - Characters

Characters

• Jonathan Troy – High school senior and 19-year-old who longs to leave this small town behind and get to the desert. He's very rude to nearly everyone he meets, especially his father.
• Nathaniel Troy – A union organizer for Industrial Workers of the World and a Communist. He wears a patch over his left eye to hide the empty eye socket. He lives under constant threats to his well-being.
• Lafilia "Leafy" Hollister – The new girl in town who Jonathan falls in love with. She's the only woman in the book Jonathan shows any real respect to.
• Etheline Glyson – Jonathan's girlfriend at the start of the story. He's in love with her body but believes she has nothing going on inside her mind.
• Phillip Feathersmith – Jonathan's teacher and director of the school play. He appears to be gay (at least Jonathan thinks so). He is constantly trying to help Jonathan mend his relationship with his father.
• Leibert B. Pitch – Another teacher who is usually hanging around Feathersmith and Jonathan. While Feathersmith usually defends Nathaniel Troy, Pitch is against it. "He doesn't care about anything. And I like him," Jonathan thinks.
• Dominic "Fatgut" Panetelli – A co-conspirator of Jonathan's and a pathological liar. The two of them engage in petty crimes. Fatgut, so named because he's overweight, constantly lies to Jonathan about how great his life is, but when challenged makes up excuses why he can't back up any of his statements.
• Captain Billy T. Greene – Chief of the local Salvation Army Band who tries to warn Nathaniel Troy that his activities will likely get him into trouble. In one scene he debates Nat over the virtues of this world vs. the next world.
• Vincent Stakura – Bartender at the Blue Bell Bar. He has a gimmick with every regular customer he uses whenever he serves them a drink. With Jonathan, he stares at him. With Feathersmith, he pinches him lightly on his nose.
• Harry Friedmann – A college professor and friend of Feathersmith. When Jonathan meets him for the first time, he thinks, "another one," suggesting he's also gay.
• Mary Ann Potter – Waitress, an older woman, at Danny's Diner who flirts with Jonathan whenever he visits.
• The Sergeant – Police sergeant who tries to warn Jonathan to get his father to back down on the union organizing and speaking about socialist causes.
• Pansy Mae Sepparton – A student in Feathersmith's English class.
• Ruth Ellen McAlfee – Another student. She plays Lady Macbeth in the play that Jonathan stars in.
• Red Ginter – A bully who tormented Jonathan when he was young because he was older and bigger and could get away with it. Now that Jonathan is older, he wants revenge on the boy, who is usually working on the family farm.
• Jack Garden – The football player at the school Leafy is dating when Jonathan tracks them down in a car chase so that he can introduce himself to Leafy. They end up in a fight.
• Johnny Woodring; Buddy Henesy and Ralph Stadtmiller – Childhood friends of Jonathan who team up with him in a plot to get their revenge on the bully, Red Ginter.
• Hankerson boys – Two friends of Red Ginter who help him bully the younger kids in the neighborhood.
• Man with the flag – A bully at the Blue Bell Bar who decides he wants all the suspected Communists to show their loyalty to America by kissing the flag.