The Man in the High Castle Characters

Childan is our favorite racist in this book. He's one of the main characters in the arts and crafts plot (see our "Brief Summary" for what we mean by that). He owns American Artistic Handcrafts, In...

Tagomi is the hero who stands up to the Nazis—eventually. Tagomi's main role here in the spy plot (see our "Brief Summary") is as the cover for the meeting of Baynes-Wegener and Yatabe-Tedeki. Ta...

When we try to list all of Frank Frink's important actions and decisions in this book, we get… actually, we don't have a list at all, just one entry that happens before the book starts. He change...

We like to picture Juliana Frink as Zooey Deschanel, but with a razor blade that she can use to kill. It's not because we think she looks like Zooey (yeah, we're on a first-name basis), but because...

Take James Bond, eliminate almost all the action sequences, and have Bond deliver long monologues about how crazy Nazis are, and you've got Baynes. And yes, his real name is Rudolf Wegener, but we...

Historians sometimes like to separate out good Nazis from bad Nazis, but they always forget those Nazis like Hugo Reiss—the ones who are just sort of there. Hugo Reiss is one of the two big Nazis...

Bruno Kreuz vom Meere might be a very sensitive guy on the inside, but luckily we don't see that inside. We only see his outside, which isn't so great, even for a Nazi. He's very much a "foil" to "...

Wyndam-Matson is such a powerful person that his first name is "Mr." When Frank Frink thinks about W-M, he thinks not just about W-M's face, but about his expensive jewelry, identifying W-M as a "p...

Since he's actually a Nazi assassin from Switzerland, we're going to guess that his real name isn't "Joe Cinnadella." "Joe Cinnadella" is just the fake name he uses when he's pretending to be an It...

The Abendsens get the award for most mismatched names in terms of awesomeness-normalness. (From now on, all of our pets will be named Hawthorne, because why not?) Hawthorne Abendsen is the author o...

If we could only hang out with one fictional character (or couple) from this book, we'd want it to be Paul and Betty Kasoura. Childan goes on about how they're young, handsome, and well-dressed (th...

Ed McCarthy should have his own POV sections, which is why we're here holding signs that say "POV for Ed Now." We hope this protest is understandable. Ed is not only the mastermind behind Edfrank j...

Yatabe-Tedeki is the flip-side of Baynes-Wegener: he's a military person traveling undercover for a secret meeting in Tagomi's office. Unlike Baynes, we don't get any POV sections from Yatabe-Tedek...

As a guy with an office, Tagomi has lots of assistants, many of whom aren't very interesting. There's Kotomichi, a young Japanese assistant; Ito, a young Japanese assistant who tries to speak Swedi...

Pferdehuf is Hugo Reiss's assistant. As we note in the "Roles" page, we don't see a lot of Pferdehuf, but the fact that Tagomi and Reiss both have these assistants reminds us that they're both gove...

Lotze is a German artist whom Baynes meets on the rocketship to San Francisco, but his main claim to fame is that he's a ridiculous Nazi. When something looks weird to him, he says things like "it...

Ray Calvin doesn't actually show up in the book, but he's the guy who buys W-M's fake antiques and sells them to antique dealers who don't know any better, like Childan. More interesting is Rita, w...

Juliana Frink doesn't have assistants like Tagomi, but we do get to see some ordinary Americans in the Rocky Mountain States through her eyes. For instance, we meet Miss Davis, who is a student in...

Childan used to run a used bookstore in a bad neighborhood, until Major Ito Humo came in and gave Childan the idea of selling Americana to the rich Japanese (2.62).