The Jungle - Minor Characters

Minor Characters

• Grandmother Swan, the only other Lithuanian in the Immigrant section of Chicago and tells Jurgis everything about the people and the house that Jurgis is moving into.
• Dede Antanas, Jurgis’s father, is at a very old age and insists to help Jurgis and the family pay for the house and food, but the working conditions get too hard for him, and he dies from a lung infection.
• Jokubas Szedvilas, a fellow Lithuanian immigrant who owns a deli on Halsted Street
• Edward Marcinkus, a fellow Lithuanian immigrant and a friend of the family
• Fisher A Chicago millionaire whose passion is helping poor people in slums. At his house Jurgis meets socialist visionary Nicholas Schliemann.
• Tamoszius Kuszleika, a fiddler who, for a while, becomes Marija's fiancé
• Jonas Lukoszas, he is Ona’s blood-related brother, and the one who encouraged the family to go to America in the first place. He leaves the family during bad circumstances and is never heard from again.
• Stanislovas Lukoszas, a young boy, he is Elizibeta's eldest son, although only 13 years old he gets a job in one of Durham's factories by lying about his age and gets locked in after falling asleep, and gets eaten alive by rats.
• Mike Scully (originally Tom Cassidy), the Democratic Party "boss" of the yards (and indirectly responsible for Jurgis' suffering)
• Phil Connor, a boss at the factory where Ona works. He is attacked by Jurgis after raping Ona.
• Miss Henderson, Ona's superintendent at the wrapping-room and Connor's former mistress
• Antanas, a small boy, otherwise known as “Baby”. Antanas Rudkus is Jurgis and Ona’s only son, as a toddler, he falls off an elevated sidewalk and drowns in a deep mud puddle.
• Vilimas and Nikalojus, Vilimas is Elzbieta's second oldest son, and Nikalojus her third oldest son
• Kristoforas, a crippled son of Elzbieta
• Juozapas, another crippled son of Elzbieta
• Kotrina, Elzbieta's only daughter and Ona's half sister, she is only thirteen, but she has to do all the cooking and cleaning for the family
• Judge Pat Callahan, a crooked, xenophobic judge who sentences Jurgis to jail time after he beats Connor
• Jack Duane, a thief that Jurgis meets in prison, he later introduces Jurgis to Chicago's criminal world.
• Madame Haupt, a midwife hired to help Ona because of the blood loss from her pregnancy, she is either Dutch or German and is portrayed as being greedy and unfeeling, she has to be bribed to help Ona and Ona dies due to her neglect
• Freddie Jones, the son of a wealthy beef baron who, in a drunken stupor, brings Jurgis to his mansion for food and drink, and who gives Jurgis a $100 bill
• Buck Halloran, an Irish "political worker" who oversees vote-buying operations
• Bush Harper, a man who works for Mike Scully as a union spy
• Ostrinski, a Polish immigrant. A socialist, he befriends Jurgis and teaches him the tenets of socialism, and how it can overcome the evils of capitalist society.
• Tommy Hind, the socialist owner of Hind's Hotel. He employs Jurgis and encourages him to tell his story of working in the packing plants to guests.
• Mr. Lucas, a socialist pastor and itinerant preacher
• Nicholas Schliemann, a Swedish philosopher and socialist
• Durham, a business man, he is Jurgis’s first employer and takes immigrants and gives them low paying jobs where most of them die because of the horrible working conditions.