The Day of the Locust Characters

We'll let West speak for himself here: Tod, our hero, is "a very complicated young man with a whole set of personalities, one inside the other like a nest of Chinese boxes" (1.8). Yeah, great. So,...

He might not be bright yellow and bald, but The Day of the Locust's Homer Simpson shares a few personality traits with his famous namesake. He's pretty chill. He's not the sharpest crayon in the bo...

Everyone knows that Faye Greener has a pretty face (and then some), but no one's quite sure what lies underneath. If anything lies underneath at all, that is.Is Faye a movie star in the making? Or...

It might sound harsh, but it's the truth: Harry Greener is a failure in every way possible. Although he realizes this deep down, that doesn't stop him from trying to convince Tod hat he once came w...

Earle Shmoop—er, Shoop is like Zoolander—he might be dumb as bricks, but he makes up for it by being a total stud. So hot right now. Even with this advantage, however, Earle finds himself frust...

Miguel seems like a swell guy and all, we guess, but we'd never have thought that he'd be the one to get with Faye. He's an unemployed cockfight expert, and she's a seventeen-year-old budding starl...

Abe Kusich is the grumpiest dwarf we've met since Gimli. Although he's a cantankerous fellow, he somehow gives Tod the inspiration to keep painting.There's one important thing that separates Abe fr...

Claude is the guy that Tod wishes he could be. Having reached success in the film industry without losing his disdain for the Man, Claude has one foot in glitzy Hollywood and the other in the city'...