# Major Barbara — Character guide

> Key figures in Major Barbara by George Bernard Shaw.

- [Andrew Undershaft](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/major_barbara_se/characters/andrew_undershaft.md): The fabulously wealthy munitions magnate who cheerfully admits he sells death, yet argues his cannons and his cash are the only honest forces in a hypocritical world.
- [Adolphus Cusins](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/major_barbara_se/characters/adolphus_cusins.md): A Greek scholar and Barbara's fiancé who lets Undershaft's burgundy wreck his moral basis, then wonders whether the Prince of Darkness has bought his soul.
- [Stephen Undershaft](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/major_barbara_se/characters/stephen_undershaft.md): The conventional son and heir who recoils from the family trade — at Harrow they called him the Woolwich Infant — yet has no income of his own.
- [Bill Walker](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/major_barbara_se/characters/bill_walker.md): A rough, violent man who storms into the Salvation Army shelter demanding satisfaction, and finds its officers far harder to bully than he expected.
- [Peter Shirley](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/major_barbara_se/characters/peter_shirley.md): A weathered old laborer thrown out of work by the very factory system he once served, Shirley carries his socialist convictions with quiet, unbroken dignity.
- [Sarah Undershaft](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/major_barbara_se/characters/sarah_undershaft.md): Sarah Undershaft, Barbara's younger sister, is a sensible, slightly exasperated young woman engaged to the cheerfully empty-headed Cholly Lomax and content to let others carry the moral weight.
- [Jenny Hill](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/major_barbara_se/characters/jenny_hill.md): Jenny Hill is a young Salvation Army officer whose fierce, unguarded devotion to saving souls leaves her dangerously exposed to every emotional current that sweeps through the shelter.
- [Mrs. Baines](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/major_barbara_se/characters/mrs_baines.md): Mrs. Baines is the Salvation Army's senior commissioner, a woman whose weathered pragmatism about money and souls keeps the shelter running even as her faith strains under the weight of it.
- [Snobby Price](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/major_barbara_se/characters/snobby_price.md): Snobby Price is a sharp-eyed cynic who works the Salvation Army shelter for what he can get, performing penitence with the same practiced ease he once used to dodge honest work.
- [Rummy Mitchens](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/major_barbara_se/characters/rummy_mitchens.md): Rummy belongs to the destitute crowd that Barbara Undershaft's shelter exists to save, and she knows the charity game well enough to play along with its hymns and testimonies. Her weary, sardonic gratitude exposes the ga

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