# Dodsworth — Character guide

> Key figures in Dodsworth by Sinclair Lewis.

- [Sam Dodsworth](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dodsworth_se/characters/sam_dodsworth.md): Sam Dodsworth is a large, friendly Midwesterner whose life has been engines, poker, and the comfortable habits of Tub Pearson. Retirement and a European tour with Fran expose a raw need he never named: for talk, for chil
- [Fran Dodsworth](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dodsworth_se/characters/fran_dodsworth.md): Fran Dodsworth moves through Paris and Berlin with the brisk authority of a woman who has decided that Zenith was a mistake. She wants adoration, culture, and a self she can reinvent, and she finds Sam's lumbering sincer
- [Edith Cortright](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dodsworth_se/characters/edith_cortright.md): Edith Cortright is the counterweight to Fran: a woman who chose Europe deliberately and now sees its decay clearly. She offers Sam the unguarded conversation and unperformed warmth he has been starving for, and in doing 
- [Kurt von Obersdorf](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dodsworth_se/characters/kurt_von_obersdorf.md): Kurt von Obersdorf is the aristocrat Fran has been looking for: gracious, poor, and convinced of his own nobility. His chumminess with servants and his refusal of her electric range reveal a man whose pride is both genui
- [Major Clyde Lockert](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dodsworth_se/characters/lockert.md): Major Clyde Lockert is the kind of American Sam keeps running into in European bars and hotels: loud, self-assured, and fluent in the codes of a world Sam never learned. He represents the alternative version of the expat
- [Tub Pearson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dodsworth_se/characters/tub_pearson.md): Tub Pearson and Sam have been habits to each other since boyhood, and Tub's arrival in Europe is a jolt of home that Sam desperately needs. But Tub has grown into new routines and new opinions, and Sam finds himself some
- [Matey Pearson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dodsworth_se/characters/matey_pearson.md): Matey arrives in Paris as half of the Pearson pair, the solid Zenith couple whose first trip abroad Sam Dodsworth secretly orchestrates to surprise them at the Gare du Nord. She is fat, uninteresting by Fran's reckoning,
- [Mr. A. B. Hurd](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dodsworth_se/characters/hurd.md): Hurd is the kind of practical, well-placed American abroad that Sam Dodsworth instinctively trusts — a man who can be telephoned in London and asked to snoop at the Savoy porter for a train schedule. He represents the or
- [Brent](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dodsworth_se/characters/brent.md): A young American man who travels with the Dodsworths' circle.
- [Emily](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dodsworth_se/characters/emily.md): A friend or relative of the Dodsworths, mentioned in correspondence.
- [Ross Ireland](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dodsworth_se/characters/ross_ireland.md): An American acquaintance of Sam's, involved in business or travel.
- [Endicott Everett Atkins](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dodsworth_se/characters/endicott_everett_atkins.md): An older American businessman and friend of Sam's.
- [Arnold Israel](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dodsworth_se/characters/arnold_israel.md): A business associate or acquaintance of Sam Dodsworth.
- [Lycurgus Watts](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dodsworth_se/characters/lycurgus_watts.md): A friend or business contact from Sam's past in Zenith.
- [Elon Richards](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dodsworth_se/characters/elon_richards.md): An American acquaintance of the Dodsworths.
- [Renée de Pénable](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dodsworth_se/characters/renee_de_penable.md): Madame de Pénable presides over a salon of assorted European titles, a judicious freak or two, and the choicest American visitors, and she recognizes at once that Fran's naive freshness is a novelty her circle craves. Sh
- [Herman Voelker](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dodsworth_se/characters/herman_voelker.md): Fran's father, a wealthy businessman from Zenith.
- [Harry McKee](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dodsworth_se/characters/harry_mckee.md): An American acquaintance of Sam's, possibly a business colleague.
- [Nande Azeredo](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dodsworth_se/characters/nande_azeredo.md): A Brazilian acquaintance of the Dodsworths in Europe.
- [Mathieu](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dodsworth_se/characters/mathieu.md): A French servant or acquaintance of the Dodsworths.
- [Herr Dr. Biedner](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dodsworth_se/characters/herr_dr_biedner.md): A German lawyer or doctor encountered by the Dodsworths.
- [Captain Gioserro](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dodsworth_se/characters/captain_gioserro.md): An Italian aviator met by the Dodsworths.
- [Theodor von Escher](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dodsworth_se/characters/theodor_von_escher.md): A German acquaintance of the Dodsworths.
- [Princess Drachenthal](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dodsworth_se/characters/princess_drachenthal.md): A European aristocrat met by the Dodsworths.
- [Baroness Volinsky](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dodsworth_se/characters/baroness_volinsky.md): A European aristocrat in the Dodsworths' social circle.
- [Baron Ercole](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dodsworth_se/characters/baron_ercole.md): An Italian baron met by the Dodsworths.
- [Mrs. Alls](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dodsworth_se/characters/mrs_alls.md): A minor character, possibly a servant or acquaintance.
- [Princess Maravigliarsi](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dodsworth_se/characters/princess_maravigliarsi.md): An Italian princess met by the Dodsworths.

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