# El-Soo — Lost Face character guide

> El-Soo in Lost Face by Jack London.

**Role:** major

**Also known as:** thy, thee

**First appearance:** 0006-the-wit-of-porportuk

## Snapshot

A Native woman of startling beauty and wit who moves as an equal among white society while her father's debts quietly enslave her to an old chief.

## Who they are

El-Soo presides over her father Klakee-Nah's great house with an aristocrat's disdain for money and a diplomat's instinct for managing proud men. She is the one Indian woman at Tana-naw Station whom white men propose to honorably and no man dares insult, yet her father's lavish hospitality is funded by loans from Porportuk, whose possessive gaze grows heavier with each advance. Her fierce loyalty to her father's way of life places her on a collision course with the man who owns everything she loves.

## In the story

### [The Wit of Porportuk](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lost_face_se/chapters/the-wit-of-porportuk)

A full-blooded Indian woman raised at Holy Cross Mission, intelligent and spirited, who returns to her father's house and later becomes the object of Porportuk's claim.

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