Character list of Inherent Vice the novel

Fay "Shasta" Hepworth played by Katherine Waterston in the 2014 movie

Larry "Doc" Sportello: Our hero, gumsandal. 

Shasta Fay Hepworth: Former beautiful love interest.

Mickey Wolfmann: Real estate tycoon, Shasta's sugar daddy, paying for apartment in Hancock Park.

Mrs. Sloane Wolfmann: wife. Has her own side piece Mr. Riggs Warbling

Deputy DA Penny Kimball: lawyer from district attorney office, who fooled around with Doc for a time. Works next to Rhus Frothingham (female book, male in movie). 

Aunt Reet: Aunt in real estate.

"Bigfoot" Christian Bjornsen: Hollywood detective and actor. Married to Chastity. Spoiler: His partner Vincent Indelicato is wacked by Adrian Prussia, but Puck did the actual job.

Mrs. Chastity Bjornsen: Gets on the phone on page 260 of the paperback to defend Bigfoot's day off from work. Calls Doc Mr. Moral Turpitude, accuses him of running up Bigfoot's mental health bills. 

Denis: friend who he goes and gets a pizza with first day. Sortilege is there. In the movie he pronounces it /Dee Nis/ not /Den is/. Roommate? Probably.

Sortilege with Doc at the pizza joint played by Joanna Newsom

Sortilege: Doc calls her Leige. She narrates the movie. When you search Joanna Newsom in Spotify you get the Muppet Show Theme song.

Petunia: PI office receptionist. Doesn't always wear underwear. Dr. Tubeside is a doctor in the office where she's a receptionist and Doc has his office. Petunia is studying relationship counseling. Spoiler: Dizzy is the father of her child (p.361).

Tariq Khalil: Referred to Doc from Sledge Poteet. In the Black Guerilla Family founded by George Jackson. Used to be an Artesia Crip. Land bought up by Wolfmann, being developed. 

Glen Charlock: Bodyguard for Wolfmann, not long for this world. Arian nation including Boris.

Jade: Sex worker at Chick Planet Massage Parlor. Hong Chau plays her in the movie and discusses her conception of the character. Ashley is her given name. She brings Denis an Orange Julius on p. 340.

Bambi: Sex worker with Jade

Sauncho Smilax: Doc's lawyer

Hope Harlingen: She calls Doc, asks him to find Coy, her husband. Daughter Amethyst.

Coy Harlingen: Government snitch who can't go home until he's done a job. In a way the lynchpin of the novel. Misidentified as Rick Doppel when heckling Nixon at the end of chapter 8.

Pat Doubonet: Officer who said no ID was required by next of kin for Coy's body. See chap. 3.

Scott Oof: Cousin, son of Aunt Reet, practicing with his band in the garage. Stops by when Elmina and Leo are in town.

Lefty: Bass player hanging out with Scott.

Fritz Drybeam: Chapter 4. Taught PI business to avoid car repo. Connected to an early version of the internet in 1970. Works with Milton and Gladys. Also chapter 12. He's got a new trainee Sparky.

Luz: Maid? to Mrs. Sloane Wolfmann

Special Agent Flatweed.

Special Agent Hugo Borderline. Two are seen in this photo from the movie.

Motella Haywood: Kahuna stewardess who's bikini came off in the hottub.

Lourdes Rodriguez: Stewardii who's bikini came off in the hottub.

Cookie and Joaquin: Motella and Lourdes current boyfriend. Ex-grunts out of Vietnam.

Blondie-san: Asian guy at club with blond wig, with bodyguard/associate Iwao. Cookie and Joaquin talked to him. 

Glen Charlock: The guy from the Nazi group who stayed around Chick Planet. Perhaps as Bambi's boyfriend?

Magda: waitress at Zucky’s.

Saint Flip, Flaco the Bad, Sortilege (Colombian): surf enthusiast. Shasta stays with flip when she comes back, Doc finds out on May 2nd. Flip lives above the surf shop, perhaps on the cover art? Dog named Mildred. Fritz has Thai weed.

Spike: Sortilege's boyfriend, vet. Friends Leej, Farley Branch (who has a darkroom p.137) and Denis. Scott p.296.

Vehi Fairfield: local oracle, Sortilege’s teacher. He in turn is inspired by the mythical Kamukea of Lemuria.

Elmina Breeze: Doc's mother, Reet's sister. He hasn't called her in a week and a half. Married to Leo Sportello. Grandpa Breeze mentioned. Cousin Scott.

Gilroy: brother to Doc who leads a conventional life. Wife Vernix.

Downstairs Eddie: Neighbor to Doc. Something about kitchens on his rap sheet. Chico upstairs.

Various Spotted Dick personnel: Smedley-keyboards, Trevor “Shiny Mac McNutley-bass.

Clancy Charlock: Glen’s sister. Likes threesomes with two men. Spoiler: Petunia gets her together with Tariq Khalil.

Boris Spivey: Friend of Glen, fiancé is Dawnette. 

Mrs Pixley owner of Knuclehead Jack’s.

Puck Beaverton: Wolfmann bodyguard, friend of Boris, Glen. Dated Clancy. "Wolfmann's jailhouse praetorians". Might have preferred friend Einar more than Clancy. Liked to sing Ethel Merman. Into anal with women. Swastika tattoo on head like Manson. Works for Prussia in chapter 18. One who actually whacked Vincent Indelicato, for Prussia's contract.

Aubrey: Clancy’s bar pickup.

Jason Velveeta: pimp wannabe.

Xandra: Golden Fang receptionist.

Dr. Rudy Blatnoyd: Dentist for heroin addicts in Golden Fang building.

Japonica Fenway played by Sasha Pieters pictured in a Vanity Fair article. She has a pimple in the movie.

Crocker Fenway: Japonica’s father.

Tito Stavrou: friend of Doc, limo driver. Inez wife, brother in law Adolfo. Gambling addict, owed Li’l T-Rex, Salvatore ‘Paper Cut’ Gazzoni, Adrian Prussia. Out of debt now. P.227 show up in Vegas.

Adrian Prussia: Loan shark, dealer. Movie has him being arrested and released often.

Mauel: Resurrection of the Body (auto body) owner.

Mike: Owner Greek restaurant Teke.

Dr. Threeply: Doctor at Chryskylodon

"El Drano" Leonard Jermain Loosemeat: bought from Prussia, Coy's dealer. Found dead, we learn from Bigfoot on p. 264.

Trillion Fortnight: UCLA music theory teacher, early music enthusiasts. Referred by Dawnette and Boris. Looking for Puck. She finds him. On page 246 of the paperback we find out she's married him, in a Vegas wedding. Too weak has married too macho but secretly gay.

Delwyn Quight: pawn shop.

Osgood: Macho guy who danced with Trillion. But Puck owes him money, so he lets her go.

Carmine: Lounge tenor.

Lark: Casino employee. From La Vargne, Tennessee, south west area of Nashville, same latitude as Las Vegas. Doc suggests she could have made it in Nashville as a singer, and she laughs and later he catches her on the stage singing.

Fabian Fazzo: Suggests Aimee Semple McPherson a charismatic Pentecostal preacher from the 20's and 30's of LA. Even she died of a sleeping pill overdose at age 53. She disappeared and people thought she was kidnapped, but she wasn't, just found a new man. Thinks Mickey fake kidnapped himself. Fazzo coins the term "gumsandal". Angry casino manager who wants to take the mob out of the business, with real estate tycoons like Mickey Wolfmann.  

Riggs Warbling: Living in the free housing Mickey Wolfmann created and abandoned, Arrepentimiento.

Ensenada Slim: Gordita local, walks into Doc's place. More Gordita regulars: Flaco the Bad, St. Flip, 

Pepe: Found at El Drano's house, when Doc went to investigate his home.

El Huevoncito: Snitch. From Pynchon Wiki: ""Huevon" is a vulgar slang insult, implying that that the subject is lazy and stupid. The "cito" is a diminutive suffix. I suppose an English translation might be "little lazy asshole" or something along those lines.

Porfirio: chef on Golden Fang boat. 

Burke Stodger: connected Coy with Vigilant California, the counter subversive organization. Actor.

Adolfo: Does a car switch to get the Golden Fang heat off him for having all the stolen number 4 (20 kilos). Brother Tito, cousin Antonio "Bugs" Ruiz. Doc did work for Tito and that's how he pulls this help. Mr. Shiffer is mentioned as a PE teacher because the car doesn't have power steering.

C.C. Chatfield: Partner in Sancho’s firm.

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Please send me corrections, I keep finding inaccuracies, and correct them myself.