# Percy Cuthfert — The Son of the Wolf character guide

> Percy Cuthfert in The Son of the Wolf by Jack London.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Cuthfert, Poor old Cuthfert

**First appearance:** 0003-in-a-far-country

## Snapshot

A weak-willed man whose name is spoken with pity even before the trail has finished with him, the kind the Northland quietly marks for its own.

## Who they are

Percy Cuthfert — 'Poor old Cuthfert' — is the sort of man the Yukon tests and finds wanting, a soft creature whose will buckles where the trail demands iron. He is the counterweight to men like Sitka Charley and Malemute Kid, the living proof that the North does not forgive those who cannot carry their own flour. His presence in the story measures the cost of weakness in a land where the weak are left in the snow, and the reader watches him the way the other characters do — with a pity that knows how the arithmetic ends.

## Relationships

### [Carter Weatherbee](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_son_of_the_wolf_se/characters/carter_weatherbee)

_rivalry_

Carter Weatherbee and Percy Cuthfert are bitter rivals, constantly competing and undermining each other.

## In the story

### [In a Far Country](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_son_of_the_wolf_se/chapters/in-a-far-country)

A sentimental man who mistakes his nature for romance; descends into madness and is killed by Weatherbee.

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