# Bud Korpenning — Manhattan Transfer character guide

> Bud Korpenning in Manhattan Transfer by John Dos Passos.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Bud

**First appearance:** 0000-section-i

## Who they are

A farm boy who arrives in New York with blood on his hands and no plan beyond finding work, quickly learning the city has no use for him.

## In the story

### [Section I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/manhattan_transfer_se/chapters/section-i)

Arrives in New York City, overwhelmed by the scale and noise, carrying a secret guilt.

### [I: Ferryslip](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/manhattan_transfer_se/chapters/i-ferryslip)

Arrives by ferry, tired and blistered from walking, asks directions to Broadway and the center of things, eats at a lunch counter and is advised to clean up before job hunting.

### [III: Dollars](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/manhattan_transfer_se/chapters/iii-dollars)

Offers to haul coal for a woman in exchange for work, identifying himself as being from upstate.

### [V: Steamroller](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/manhattan_transfer_se/chapters/v-steamroller)

A homeless farm runaway haunted by his abusive father's scars; he struggles with insomnia and paranoia in a Bowery flophouse, then jumps from the Brooklyn Bridge at dawn.

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