# Peter Nagle — Oil! character guide

> Peter Nagle in Oil! by Upton Sinclair.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Peter, Pete O'Reilly

**First appearance:** 0001-oil

## Who they are

A roughneck or oil worker, possibly Irish.

## In the story

### [XI: The Rebel](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/oil_se/chapters/xi-the-rebel)

A rationalist student with a boorish appearance who becomes editor of the proposed student paper.

### [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/oil_se/chapters/i)

A boorish rationalist who openly attacks religion in class, making him unpopular at the devout Methodist university.

### [VII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/oil_se/chapters/vii)

Receives Bunny's gospel about Russia with his mouth wide open.

### [VIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/oil_se/chapters/viii)

Serves as editor of The Investigator and insists on including a poem satirizing God.

### [Chapter X](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/oil_se/chapters/x)

Student editor of a radical paper; refuses to recant and is expelled, vowing to continue his activism.

### [XII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/oil_se/chapters/xii)

Discussed with Bunny the possibility of starting a labor college.

### [V](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/oil_se/chapters/v)

Union plumber and publisher of a tabloid ridiculing God, present at the meeting.

### [VI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/oil_se/chapters/vi)

Enthusiastically supports Bunny's idea of mandatory jail time.

### [II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/oil_se/chapters/ii)

Mentioned by Bunny as someone he discussed conforming to bourgeois standards with.

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