# The Sea-Wolf — Character guide

> Key figures in The Sea-Wolf by Jack London.

- [Wolf Larsen](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_sea_wolf_se/characters/wolf_larsen.md): Larsen commands the schooner with tremendous virility and mental strength that wall him apart from every man aboard, playing with hunters as a man plays with puppies or probing them with cold curiosity. His rages may be 
- [Humphrey Van Weyden](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_sea_wolf_se/characters/humphrey_van_weyden.md): Van Weyden begins as a man of mind and idea, revolted by the cleansing of decks and the handling of men, yet aware of a toughening he cannot call anything but wholesome. Under Larsen's destructive criticism his faith in 
- [Maud Brewster](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_sea_wolf_se/characters/maud_brewster.md): Maud Brewster arrives in the stern sheets of a strange boat, the fifth occupant of a vessel that should have held only sealers, and immediately becomes the axis of a new tension aboard. She watches Wolf Larsen's schemes 
- [Thomas Mugridge](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_sea_wolf_se/characters/thomas_mugridge.md): Mugridge flits through the cabin like a ghost, daring only a cubbyhole stateroom, yet blossoms into blithering self-importance the moment Wolf Larsen invites him to play Nap. He hints at being a gentleman's son gone wron
- [Johnson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_sea_wolf_se/characters/johnson.md): Summoned before Wolf Larsen, Johnson answers with unalterable slowness that his work is done well and that he says what he thinks, appending "sir" to every speech even as he refuses to bend. His quiet courage, his flush 
- [George Leach](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_sea_wolf_se/characters/george_leach.md): Leach approaches Humphrey at night with a low question about the coast and the distance to Japan, and Humphrey's heart leaps because he knows exactly what the man intends. By morning the boat, the water breakers, the gru
- [Louis](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_sea_wolf_se/characters/louis.md): Louis is the old, fat sailor whose cautious lips barely touch the liquor while his shipmates howl and curse Wolf Larsen into their cups. That restraint makes him one of the two men the captain can still depend on, and he
- [Johansen](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_sea_wolf_se/characters/johansen.md): Routed from the cabin after one night of shouting battle orders in his sleep, Johansen is foisted on the hunters' steerage, where his nightly bellowing becomes a running grievance. He embodies the brute-force discipline 
- [Harrison](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_sea_wolf_se/characters/harrison.md): Sailor who attempts to escape the Ghost with Leach and Johnson.
- [Death Larsen](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_sea_wolf_se/characters/death_larsen.md): Death Larsen commands the Macedonia and shares with his brother a reputation for ruthless efficiency on the sealing grounds, though the two are bitter rivals rather than allies. He exists in the novel first as a rumor an
- [Kerfoot](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_sea_wolf_se/characters/kerfoot.md): Hunter on the Ghost who participates in seal hunts.
- [Henderson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_sea_wolf_se/characters/henderson.md): Hunter on the Ghost, killed during a storm.
- [Jock Horner](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_sea_wolf_se/characters/horner.md): Hunter on the Ghost, known for his skill and quiet demeanor.
- [Latimer](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_sea_wolf_se/characters/latimer.md): Hunter on the Ghost, survives the voyage.
- [Oofty-Oofty](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_sea_wolf_se/characters/oofty_oofty.md): Kanaka sailor known for his strength and exotic appearance.
- [Smoke](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_sea_wolf_se/characters/smoke.md): Sailor on the Ghost, involved in the mutiny plot.
- [Kelly](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_sea_wolf_se/characters/kelly.md): Irish sailor on the Ghost, often grumbling.
- [Standish](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_sea_wolf_se/characters/standish.md): Hunter on the Ghost, dies during the voyage.
- [Charley Furuseth](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_sea_wolf_se/characters/charley_furuseth.md): Humphrey's friend who introduces him to the sea voyage.

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