Scripps O'Neil

Diana Scripps

Diana Scripps and Scripps O'Neil are married, sharing a domestic life with underlying strain and dependency.

Mandy

Mandy and Scripps O'Neil are lovers, with Mandy representing a new romantic interest in Scripps's life.

Diana Scripps

Diana Scripps and Scripps O'Neil are married, sharing a domestic life with underlying strain and dependency.

Mandy

Mandy and Scripps O'Neil are lovers, with Mandy representing a new romantic interest in Scripps's life.

Diana Scripps

Diana Scripps and Scripps O'Neil are married, sharing a domestic life with underlying strain and dependency.

Mandy

Mandy and Scripps O'Neil are lovers, with Mandy representing a new romantic interest in Scripps's life.

Red and Black Laughter

A tall, lean man with two wives; leaves Mancelona after finding his house empty, walking the tracks toward Chicago.

I

A tall, lean man standing at the next window, thinking of his two wives and his daughter Lucy.

II

Protagonist of the chapter; stands outside the high school, walks home, and finds his house empty.

III

Leaves Mancelona after a devastating loss, walks through a snowstorm toward Chicago, finds and warms a frozen bird, and contemplates his future in Grand Rapids.

IV

Arrives in Petoskey after his wife left him, confused and seeking connection.

V

Protagonist of the chapter; hesitates at a barber shop, enters Brown's Beanery with his bird, listens to the waitress's story, and considers working at a pump-factory.

The Struggle for Life

Looks for work, gets a job at the pump factory, and later walks with his wife Diana.

VI

Seeks employment at the pump-factory, meets Yogi Johnson and the old pump-makers, and begins working collaring pistons.

VII

After his first day at the pump-factory, Scripps visits the beanery and declares the elderly waitress his woman.

VIII

Marries the elderly Mrs. Scripps, feels a thrill from Mandy's touch, and ponders war and his own past.

IX

Goes to work at the pump-factory; fascinates Mandy with literary anecdotes, causing tension in his marriage.

X

Returns home from the pump-factory, hardened by work, and agrees to go to the beanery with Diana.

Men in War and the Death of Society

Mentioned as having started for Chicago on an eventful night.

The Passing of a Great Race and the Making and Marring of Americans

Sits with his wife Diana and Mandy in the beanery, listening to Mandy's literary gossip as his marriage dissolves.

XIV

Sits with his wife as their marriage ends, listening to Mandy's literary gossip.

XV

Rejects Diana's plea to come home, declares Mandy his woman, but feels unsatisfied and haunted by the squaw's image.