# Yogi Johnson — Short Fiction character guide > Yogi Johnson in Short Fiction by Ernest Hemingway. **Role:** major **Also known as:** Yogi, Henry, Henry Fielding XI Yogi Johnson, Johnson, XI Yogi Johnson, Henry Fielding XIII Yogi Johnson, XIII Yogi Johnson **First appearance:** 0034-the-torrents-of-spring ## Snapshot A pump-factory veteran walking out into the chinook wind, disturbed to find that spring has arrived and he no longer wants a woman. ## Who they are Yogi Johnson leaves the workmen's entrance into melting snow and a town suddenly full of thaw, and the season's arrival unsettles him more than the war did. He tests himself against waitresses, librarians, schoolgirls, and finds nothing answers. His private crisis — desire gone missing — makes him the story's strangest barometer of what the war did to men's appetites and American life. ## Relationships ### [Indians](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_15_se/characters/indians) _friendship_ Indians and Yogi Johnson share a bond of camaraderie and mutual respect, often traveling or working together. ### [Jack Brennan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_15_se/characters/jack_brennan) _friendship_ Jack Brennan and Yogi Johnson are fellow boxers or associates, with a bond formed through shared experiences in the fighting world. ### [The Indian](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_15_se/characters/the_indian) _friendship_ The Indian and Yogi Johnson have a respectful and cooperative relationship, often interacting as peers. ### [El Heraldo](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_15_se/characters/el_heraldo) _social_ El Heraldo is a newspaper or reporter that frequently covers or interacts with Yogi Johnson, possibly for interviews. ### [Massa Red Dog](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_15_se/characters/massa_red_dog) _friendship_ Massa Red Dog and Yogi Johnson are friends or allies, sharing a bond possibly in a military or frontier context. ### [Indians](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_15_se/characters/indians) _friendship_ Indians and Yogi Johnson share a bond of camaraderie and mutual respect, often traveling or working together. ### [Massa Red Dog](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_15_se/characters/massa_red_dog) _friendship_ Massa Red Dog and Yogi Johnson are friends or allies, sharing a bond possibly in a military or frontier context. ### [Jack Brennan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_15_se/characters/jack_brennan) _friendship_ Jack Brennan and Yogi Johnson are fellow boxers or associates, with a bond formed through shared experiences in the fighting world. ### [The Indian](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_15_se/characters/the_indian) _friendship_ The Indian and Yogi Johnson have a respectful and cooperative relationship, often interacting as peers. ### [Jack Brennan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_15_se/characters/jack_brennan) _friendship_ Jack Brennan and Yogi Johnson are fellow boxers or associates, with a bond formed through shared experiences in the fighting world. ### [El Heraldo](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_15_se/characters/el_heraldo) _social_ El Heraldo is a newspaper or reporter that frequently covers or interacts with Yogi Johnson, possibly for interviews. ### [The Indian](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_15_se/characters/the_indian) _friendship_ The Indian and Yogi Johnson have a respectful and cooperative relationship, often interacting as peers. ## In the story ### [Red and Black Laughter](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_15_se/chapters/red-and-black-laughter) Stands at the pump-factory window, thinking of Paris and the coming spring. ### [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_15_se/chapters/i) Stands looking out the window, thinking of Paris and the coming spring. ### [The Struggle for Life](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_15_se/chapters/the-struggle-for-life) War veteran from Cadillac; shows Scripps around the pump factory. ### [VI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_15_se/chapters/vi) Shows Scripps around the pump-factory, explains the manufacturing process, and mentions his war experience. ### [VII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_15_se/chapters/vii) Scripps thinks about Yogi Johnson, wondering about his war experience and his time in Paris. ### [X](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_15_se/chapters/x) Mentioned as the other protagonist; the narrative prepares to return to him. ### [Men in War and the Death of Society](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_15_se/chapters/men-in-war-and-the-death-of-society) Protagonist walking from pump-factory, troubled by lack of desire for women, reflecting on war and soldiering. ### [Chapter XI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_15_se/chapters/xi) Reflects on war and combat, feels humiliated by the Indians' war records, decides to seek a woman. ### [XII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_15_se/chapters/xii) Yogi is guided by two Indians to a poolroom and later to an Indian club, where he plays pool, drinks, and meets various characters. ### [The Passing of a Great Race and the Making and Marring of Americans](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_15_se/chapters/the-passing-of-a-great-race-and-the-making-and-marring-of-americans) Walks with two Indians, reflects on his war trauma and a Parisian experience that caused his loss of desire, then declares himself cured and leaves the beanery. ### [XIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_15_se/chapters/xiii) Walks with two Indian veterans, reflects on the war and his aimlessness, leads them to a beanery. ### [XIV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_15_se/chapters/xiv) Reveals his traumatic Paris experience and subsequent cure upon seeing the squaw. ### [Night in Petoskey](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_15_se/chapters/xvi) Walks naked in the moonlight beside the squaw, casting off his garments. ## Links - HTML: https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_15_se/characters/yogi_johnson - Book: https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_15_se - All characters: https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_15_se/characters