For 10 points, name this San Francisco dentist, the title character of a novel by Frank Norris.
This character's pipe is knocked out of his mouth by a former friend who throws a knife at him at Frenna's. His maid Maria marries an avaricious Polish Jew who only desires her valuable set of dishes. This character begins to court his wife after a picnic in Schuetzen park, during which August's steamboat explodes, and is able to play six sad airs on the concertina. His wife, a member of the Sieppe family, carves wooden Noah's Ark figures to make extra money, and eventually becomes a miser who delights in rolling around in gold coins. Erich von Stroheim's film Greed is based on the novel named for this man, who steals his wife's lottery winnings and flees toward Mexico, only to end up in Death Valley handcuffed to his dead former friend Marcus Schouler. For 10 points, name this San Francisco dentist, the title character of a novel by Frank Norris.
This character's pipe is knocked out of his mouth by a former friend who throws a knife at him at Frenna's.
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