# His Family — Character guide

> Key figures in His Family by Ernest Poole.

- [Roger Gale](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/his_family_se/characters/roger_gale.md): Roger Gale came to the city at seventeen and seized a wild, unheard-of opportunity — a news clippings bureau that wound through every phase of American life. Now a widower in the house his late wife Judith once owned, he
- [Deborah Gale](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/his_family_se/characters/deborah_gale.md): Deborah comes home each night wrung out by problems and vexing toil in her vast school family, then climbs to her third-floor room past the sister she keeps failing to comfort. She tries — the knock, the low clear voice,
- [Edith Gale](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/his_family_se/characters/edith_gale.md): Edith has returned to the old house with her children and a pregnancy that leaves her feverish, planning every hour of the baby's arrival and unable to loosen her grip on any of it. She and Deborah grate against each oth
- [Laura Gale](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/his_family_se/characters/laura_gale.md): Laura arrives in leopard skin and reddish hair, her limousine noiseless, her views on war and marriage delivered with amused superiority. She has no baby, spends like water, and is plainly at loose ends with her husband 
- [Allan Baird](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/his_family_se/characters/allan_baird.md): Allan Baird exists in the family mostly through others' talk: Laura sneers that Deborah's love for him is all mind and reason, the kind that can wait for years, while Deborah herself keeps him carefully out of the quarre
- [Bruce Cunningham](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/his_family_se/characters/bruce_cunningham.md): Bruce works at his desk with an old briar pipe, greeting his father-in-law with a nervous smile that betrays his dread of Edith's coming ordeal. He jokes that moving the family isn't a job but a science and he has his de
- [John](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/his_family_se/characters/john.md): John is the young man Deborah has quietly taken into the family's care, and her separate washtub for his things is the first sign that his sickness has become a secret. When Edith learns he is tubercular as well as cripp
- [George](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/his_family_se/characters/george.md): Since his father Bruce's death, George has appointed himself his mother's keeper, rationing out three carefully reasoned points about the accident whenever her grief turns dangerous. He meets Roger at the station with ne
- [Judith](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/his_family_se/characters/judith.md): A friend or acquaintance of the Gale daughters.
- [Harold Sloane](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/his_family_se/characters/harold_sloane.md): Sloane arrives to claim Laura with an easy assurance — a good job downtown, a honeymoon abroad, a huge yellow solitaire — and Roger, who knows rings, dislikes all of it on sight. Where Roger dreamed of crooked European s
- [Isadore Freedom](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/his_family_se/characters/isadore_freedom.md): A friend of the family, possibly a business associate of Roger.
- [Johnny Geer](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/his_family_se/characters/johnny_geer.md): A young boy who interacts with the Gale family.
- [Dave Royce](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/his_family_se/characters/dave_royce.md): An old friend or colleague of Roger Gale.
- [Elizabeth](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/his_family_se/characters/elizabeth.md): A woman from the Gales' social circle, possibly a friend of Deborah.
- [Madge Deering](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/his_family_se/characters/madge_deering.md): A friend of the Gale daughters, part of their social circle.
- [Hannah](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/his_family_se/characters/hannah.md): A maid or servant in the Gale household.
- [Father Abraham](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/his_family_se/characters/father_abraham.md): A historical or allegorical figure referenced in the narrative.

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