Meet the Cast
The Kid
The RunawayIt doesn't take us long to meet the kid, our protagonist in Blood Meridian. Cormac McCarthy actually orders us to look at the kid in the very first line of the book: See the child. He is...
The Judge
The TroublemakerWe meet Judge Holden within the first few pages of this book. He stands up in the middle of a preacher's sermon and informs the crowd that this man is a fraud:In truth, the gentlema...
Glanton
Glanton is the toughest, meanest dude you'll find in this book. Well…maybe the judge is tougher, but Glanton is sure mean. He takes total pleasure in killing things for the sheer fun of it, as we...
Tobin
If the kid has any kind of mentor in this book, it's the ex priest Tobin. We're not sure why Tobin left the priesthood to become a professional mercenary, but it might have to do with the unfairnes...
Captain White
Ever heard of Manifest Destiny? It refers to the idea that it was America's destiny to spread across the entire continent of North America and to wipe away the Native American and Mexican populatio...
Toadyvine
Toadvine is the first main character that the kid runs into (apart from the judge). They get into a fight because neither one will step to the side when they run into each other on the sidewalk. Of...
David Brown
David Brown is one of the roughnecks from Glanton's crew. We never learn much about the guy that makes him different from the others in Glanton's crew. The one thing that makes him stand out the mo...