Minor characters in this work include the assistant manager at Keating and Bradley Sanitary Engineers, William Olafson, and a man who killed his abusive father and eventually jumps off a bridge, Bud Korpenning.
Minor characters in this work include the assistant manager at Keating and Bradley Sanitary Engineers, William Olafson, and a man who killed his abusive father and eventually jumps off a bridge, Bud Korpenning. Another character in this novel drunkenly marries the slatternly Pearline then dies after setting his own apartment on fire out of shame. That character, (*) Stan Emery, had previously knocked up a woman married to the homosexual actor John Oglethorpe. Events are set in motion in this novel after a train accident involving the milkman Gus McNiel, who later runs for mayor against his lawyer. The protagonist and his wife Ellen work for the Red Cross in Europe during World War I but drift apart upon their return, leading her to accept the proposal of the unscrupulous lawyer George Baldwin.  Ending with the protagonist walking down a highway away from New York City, this is, for 10 points, what novel about the reporter Jimmy Herf by Jon Dos Passos?
Minor characters in this work include the assistant manager at Keating and Bradley Sanitary Engineers, William Olafson, and a man who killed his abusive father and eventually jumps off a bridge, Bud Korpenning.
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