Steppenwolf Characters

The ManHarry Haller's a loner, a drunk, and pushing fifty. Not too inspiring, right? That's how it looks to his landlady's nephew, too: His health did not seem good. Besides his limping gait that o...

Something's FishyHermine is a really weird chick. She almost seems like she's a figment of Harry's imagination, because her identity is kind of formed by him. For example, she won't tell him what h...

He's Everywhere, He's EverywherePablo, like Hermine, is a sort of a shape-shifter. He shows up first as a saxophonist in the band. In the Magic Theater he is a chess player, and even Mozart:And as...

Maria is Harry's lover while he's getting ready for the ball. It turns out she is lots of people's lovers; in fact, that's how she makes her money:It was not my fortune to be Maria's only lover, no...

The narrator of the preface barely shows up in Harry's version of events, as someone that the landlady mentions in passing. However, Harry made a big enough impression on him to make him collect hi...

This woman represents, for Harry, everything domestic, middle-class, and tranquil in life. She's got a clean, nice-smelling house, and takes care of him when he comes home after a wild night out, h...

These are old friends of Harry's from the last time he lived in this town, several years ago. Unfortunately, he's in a terrible mood when they invite him over, and insults them for the way they dec...

We don't see much of Erica in person in the novel; she's a photograph in Harry's room and mentioned as his girlfriend. However, the few times they do get together they end up fighting. This seems t...

The peddler is a mysterious figure who shows up to give Harry the book on the Steppenwolf the night he sees the entrance to the Magic Theater. He later tells Harry to go to the Black Eagle if he wa...

The people who show up in the magic theater are all parts of Harry's imagination. Some of them are from his past, some seem to be made up, but they all reveal some sort of secret desire that Harry...